August 4, 2026 | Read on my website Listen to the audio format of this issue Signal or Sedation Aug 3 · 1-2-3 Inner Game 4:54 I'm writing this one from the road. The trip has been everything I hoped. Good food, good people, time with family, long mornings with nowhere to be. And somewhere around the middle of it, I noticed two things pulling at me at once. I missed my routine. And I missed my work. Let me be clear. I love what I do. That part has never been in question. Missing the routine is...
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July 14, 2026 | Read on my website Listen to the audio format of this issue The campus changes. The less... Jul 10 · 1-2-3 Inner Game 5:28 This week I wrapped up the East Coast leg of college touring with my boys. We finished at the Harvard Business School campus. I walked them through my old spots, the corners that shaped me, the places I sat as a student with everything still in front of me. The buildings have changed. The memories have not. Funny how a place can look completely different...
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June 30, 2026 | Read on my website Listen to the audio format of this issue The Second Arrow Jun 28 · 1-2-3 Inner Game 4:31 A week ago I stood on a board of nails. Before the breathwork started, the facilitator asked one question. What's pain, and what's suffering? His answer: suffering is the story we wrap around the pain, and the story is usually what makes it worse. Then he put me on the nails. The first seconds were exactly what you'd expect. Sharp. Every instinct said move. So I stayed....
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
June 23, 2026 | Read on my website Listen to the audio format of this issue The Room Reads You First Jun 21 · 1-2-3 Inner Game 5:45 Twice this week, two different people, told me I wasn't myself. The first time I brushed it off. People say things. The second time, a different person in a different room, I couldn't. Here's the part that stayed with me. I did feel slightly off that week. I just didn't think anyone could tell. I thought I was managing it. I was broadcasting it. We carry a quiet...
2 months ago • 4 min read
June 16, 2026 | Read on my website Listen to the audio format of this issue The Busy Alibi Jun 13 · 1-2-3 Inner Game 5:05 Being busy is the most respectable way to avoid your life. I'd know. Last week I delivered for six days straight, real work, real clients, genuinely tiring. And I touched zero of the three things I'd said mattered most this year. Zero. Nobody could've called me lazy. That's exactly what made it dangerous. Delivery feels like progress, so the drift never sets off an alarm....
2 months ago • 4 min read
June 9, 2026 | Read on my website Listen to the audio format of this issue The Cleared Desk Jun 7 · 1-2-3 Inner Game 19:12 This week I stood beside a friend as he said goodbye to his son. There is nothing to say in a moment like that. You just stand there. Later, life did what life does. It kept going. The ordinary work of an ordinary week was still there waiting, and at some point I went back to it. That's the part no one prepares you for. How quietly the world asks you to carry on. For...
3 months ago • 3 min read
May 12, 2026 | Read on my website Listen to the audio format of this issue I'm Proud of You May 18 · 1-2-3 Inner Game 5:06 If you know me, you know my love language is words of affirmation. So when someone asks what the best compliment I've ever received is, the answer comes fast. My parents telling me they were proud of me. Not after the win. Not tied to a grade or a result or a good decision. Just, proud of me. There's something in that phrase that never lost its weight. I've been thinking...
3 months ago • 4 min read
May 12, 2026 | Read on my website Listen to the audio format of this issue Same Game. Different Height May 11 · 1-2-3 Inner Game 13:54 I listened to Dr. Becky Kennedy on Lenny's podcast, a child psychologist talking to a room of founders and product leaders, and I nodded twice. Once as a parent. Once as a coach. That double-nod meant something. Her premise is simple and uncomfortable: all human systems run on the same fundamentals. The boardroom and the kitchen table. The founder and the...
4 months ago • 4 min read
May 4, 2026 | Read on my website Listen to the audio format of this issue The Slip Playbook May 2 · 1-2-3 Inner Game 15:02 A leader told me last week that her team keeps missing deadlines. "They know what needs to get done. They say they'll do it. And then it doesn't happen." She was frustrated. Understandably. But she was doing what most leaders do when things slip. Treating every miss the same way. More follow-up. More pressure. More accountability. So I asked her to walk me through the...
4 months ago • 4 min read
