May 2026

Overthinking and Underfeeling

Have you ever been in the middle of a busy week, energy running low, and had a thought cross your mind that you should leave the office early, only for another voice to arrive almost instantly telling you what your team will think, what it will look like, whether you’ve done enough to justify it? So you stay. Tired, half-present, staring at a screen. Doing nothing particularly useful, but you stay… Maybe it shows up differently for you. A relationship that hasn’t felt right for a while, but…

Nobody Expected Him to Win

Have you ever looked at someone succeeding in your field and wondered whether you’re doing it all wrong? Maybe their approach looks more polished, more visible, more conventional. Maybe they seem to be playing the game the way the game is supposed to be played, and you’ve been wondering whether your own route, your own pace, your own way of doing things, is ever actually going to get you there? I’ve been there. And this week, an unlikely source reminded me of something important. I’m not a…

The 5 Lies You’ve Built Your Life On

Good to be back. I’ve been out of my usual routine for the past couple of weeks, travelling through the US, and during that trip I co-hosted a dinner event in Chicago with 35 executives and entrepreneurs. What came out of that evening was one of the most honest conversations I’ve had in a room full of high-achievers, and I wanted to share a snippet of it with you here. We spoke about five lies. Not the obvious ones. The ones that look like virtues, sound like discipline, and get praised by…