Leadership· Winter 2025· 8 min
The Meeting Before the Meeting
The real work of a program manager happens in the fifteen minutes when nobody is sure what the meeting is for. What we do in that silence is the whole job.
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01 — Reflections
The Writer's Journal
Essays on leadership, presence, and the long practice of paying attention. New pieces added quietly, when they're ready.
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Reflection· Autumn 2024· 6 min
On Being a Person With Many Dimensions
I used to apologize for the plurality of my life — the yoga mat next to the deck of slides. I've stopped. This is a note about why.
Read the essay →Culture· Summer 2024· 10 min
What the Docent Learns
Standing beside a Rothko for the four-hundredth time teaches you something about attention that no leadership offsite will ever match.
Read the essay →Practice· Summer 2024· 5 min
Restorative, in the Middle of a Quarter
A short field-note on doing legs-up-the-wall between two Zoom calls, and what the nervous system remembers that the calendar forgets.
Read the essay →Leadership· Spring 2024· 7 min
The Kindest Thing a Manager Can Say
It isn't 'I trust you.' It's a smaller sentence, harder to earn, and it takes about a year to learn how to mean it.
Read the essay →Reflection· Spring 2024· 6 min
Los Angeles as a Long Exhale
I came here for the work and stayed for the light. A short essay on what a city can teach you about pacing a life.
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"The essays here are placeholder texts written in the voice this journal will hold. Real pieces will replace them as they arrive, one at a time, unhurried."