Journal.
Notes from the road. And the cushion. Recent journeys. Encounters. The quiet things I am still learning to understand.
Can Corporations Have a Soul?
Can Corporations Have a Soul? I have spent nearly two decades building companies. Somewhere between the spreadsheets and the ten-day silent retreats, a strange...
Read entry →The Monastery and the Boardroom
The Monastery and the Boardroom I sat cross-legged on a cushion at 4:30 in the morning last month, watching my breath. By 9:00 that same morning, I was watchin...
Read entry →What Happens When You Stop Optimizing Yourself?
What Happens When You Stop Optimizing Yourself? I spent years measuring my sleep, my macros, my HRV, my meditation minutes. One morning at a Vipassana retreat,...
Read entry →The CEO Who Learned to Feel
The CEO Who Learned to Feel For most of my career, I trusted spreadsheets more than sensations. If a decision could not be defended on a slide, it did not exis...
Read entry →Ayurveda and the Rhythm of the Body
Ayurveda and the Rhythm of the Body Some evenings I catch myself reaching for the laptop at ten in the evening, and something quiet inside me protests. I do no...
Read entry →What Thai Massage Taught Me About Listening
What Thai Massage Taught Me About Listening The first time I received a proper Thai massage in Chiang Mai, the practitioner did something strange — she placed ...
Read entry →The Difference Between Healing and Fixing
The Difference Between Healing and Fixing For most of my life, I was a fixer. Something broken? Find the cause, apply the solution, move on. It worked in busin...
Read entry →Why We Keep Repeating the Same Patterns
Why We Keep Repeating the Same Patterns I noticed it first in silence. Ten days of Vipassana, no talking, no reading — and still, the same old story kept surfa...
Read entry →The Nervous System Does Not Know It Is Safe
The Nervous System Does Not Know It Is Safe I noticed it first during a board meeting last winter. My hands were cold, my breath high in the chest, and yet not...
Read entry →What Happens in the Body When We Feel Shame?
What Happens in the Body When We Feel Shame? I noticed it first during a long sit — the flush in the chest, the strange collapse in the shoulders, a memory fro...
Read entry →How Breath Became My First Teacher
How Breath Became My First Teacher For most of my life, I never noticed I was breathing. It happened somewhere in the background, like an old server humming un...
Read entry →The Space Between Stimulus and Response
The Space Between Stimulus and Response I first read Viktor Frankl on a plane, somewhere between Warsaw and Bangkok, and I underlined a single sentence with a ...
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