Contemplation used to be a normal part of everyday life. You see it in older writings, in philosophy, in religious traditions, and even in the way people structured their days. Long walks, quiet porches, staring…
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The Quiet Behind Pleasure: Something I’ve Noticed in My Own Life
When I look back over the things I’ve enjoyed in my life — the real moments, not the polished ones you stick in a holiday photo album — there’s a common thread running through all…
You Don’t Own Your Thoughts — But You Do Own What You Do
This is one of the most uncomfortable but liberating truths you can discover: you don’t own your thoughts or emotions. You witness them. You feel them. You deal with them. But you don’t choose them.
The Middle Majority: Why Most People Aren’t Good or Bad, and How One Buddhist Idea Accidentally Backed This Up
The world doesn’t divide neatly into good people and bad people. Instead, most people sit in a third category, one that rarely gets discussed. Not harmful, but not exactly helpful. Not villains, not heroes — just people quietly moving through life without leaving much of a moral footprint either way.
Defining a Sense Making Framework for Illness
Background: The Cynefin Framework is a sense-making tool for problem-solving, and I often use it as a foundational reference when exploring how we approach the work we do. Today, I asked an AI to create…
Want to test drive my AI daily reflection tool?
For the last while I’ve been building AI coaching tools. The Daily Compass is one of them: a simple way to start your day with clarity and end it with perspective. This is the story so far.
You Can’t Achieve Nirvana if the Toilet Is Broken
Alongside this idea of wellbeing as a skill, there’s another crucial piece that’s often missed — and it’s far less glamorous. It’s the stuff that doesn’t generate wellbeing, but whose absence will quietly destroy it. I call these “hygiene factors.” These are the basic conditions that support wellbeing, not by adding to it directly, but by preventing its collapse.
Weathering Emotional Waves: Building Resilience Through Practice
By approaching resilience as a skill to be honed—through theory, practice, and reflection—you empower yourself and your colleagues to surf life’s emotional waves with confidence. After all, the goal isn’t to calm the ocean, but to become a better sailor.
Lightening the Load: Transforming Stress into Stepping Stones
Stress isn’t your foe—
it’s the stepping stones that carry you forward.
Understanding Hope as a Cognitive Skill
Hope is neither mere wishful thinking nor a passive emotion; it’s an active, goal-directed mindset