How the good stuff gets killed
Don’t use a typewriter. The noise will destroy your sense of rhythm, which still needs years of training. - CS Lewis
When you think about it...
No one grows up thinking: "I'm passionate about tax law", but the best tax lawyers fly private jets and have a much broader selection of mates than they deserve.
Escape velocity
In aero-propulsion engineering, it has been found that the most amount of fuel per kilometer is burned when a plane is taxi-ing and taking off, not when it is cruising in mid air.
Some shortfalls of conventional wisdom
"I hereby sincerely apply for a job"
"Back in the old days"
Being humble.
A good day to take a walk.
Quieten the constant chatter in your mind that may lead you to act all the time, do your work and shut up and wait.
Stuff which I have read and heard recently
A few hours of distraction every day is the most common recipe of an average life. Cut the noise and get things done.
Truth, reality, limitations and executive roles
Do not believe anything ever again, time to slow down, and no more executive roles after your fifties.
Reflections to close the lunar new year
Herd instinct, selling stories, living by IFRS 16 and learning how to think.