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How Often Should You Have One-to-Ones?
How often should you have one-to-ones? Ask five managers, and you'll get one of two answers: 30 or 60 minutes, every other week, for everyone on the...
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How to Get Into Deep Focus at Work
Deep focus at work doesn't happen because you decided to concentrate harder. It happens because you set the right conditions. Your environment, your mindset, and your energy level all either support focused work or work against it. Understanding which levers to pull...
stop being reactive at work
Being responsive isn't the same as being reactive. Most people know this intellectually and ignore it in practice. Every time you treat your inbox or your Teams like a live chat with no acceptable delay, you're not demonstrating availability. You're training your...
turn off notifications to take back your focus
Notifications aren't on to help you be more productive. They're on to get you to use that tool more. Every alert triggers a dopamine response; your brain starts to like it, and the cycle continues. The default settings on your phone, watch, and laptop were not...
Why Smart People Still Struggle to Focus
You're not distracted because you lack discipline. Even smart people still struggle to focus at work. Every ring, ping, buzz, and haptic you receive triggers the involuntary part of your brain. The same part wired to respond to sirens, flashing lights, and babies...
Meeting Reset: do this before you join a meeting
Before you shorten a meeting, improve the agenda, or redesign participation, ask whether the meeting should exist at all. This is the first step to a meeting reset. In this podcast episode, I tackle a problem most teams try to solve too late: meeting overload. My...
ADHD-Friendly Reading Habits
ADHD-friendly reading strategies that remove shame, increase focus, and build sustainable habits through design instead of discipline.
How to Make Prioritization Visible and Cut Decision Load
Make prioritization visible with Altitude + Top Three, plan to 85%, and cut decision load. Guardrails that replace busyness with sustainable performance.
Don’t Improve the Symptom Before Addressing The Source
Don’t improve the symptom when you haven’t addressed the source. A podcast summary on prioritization, meetings, email, and leadership.
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