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Being the Bad Guy Can Help You Save the Day

Your To-Do List Lives in Three Places. Stop Apologizing.

The AI's Reply Was Still at the Top

The Decisions You Don't Make Don't Disappear

You Might Be Debating When You Should Be Deciding

Smart people are trained to defend positions. But not every hard conversation needs a debate.

You're closer to the water than you think

Helping at work costs less than you fear, and compounds more than you'd expect.

Cancel the noise.

Protecting your capacity to handle pressure is a quiet lever of influence. So is protecting other people's.

You Keep Reaching for the White Cauliflower

Your sense of "normal" creates a quiet bias that skews your assessment of merit and costs you influence.

The Day You Got Eaten

What a centuries-old Arabic fable taught me about office politics

Hard-boil Your Emotions

How you get ready before a conversation decides whether people come back for the next one.

I Couldn’t Stop Watching His Hands

What the calmest people are doing that has nothing to do with nerve.

Talking About Other People