Regular perspectives on self-mastery and the post-career era. Enter the Maze →
To say we live in tough times is an under-statement. Cost of living. Potential world wars. Constant rage-bait. Epstein files. General anxiety and panic. And then you have growing doom from an AI-takeover. I get it. The pace of change is genuinely frightening. The structures that defined professional careers for decades are contracting. The expertise…
After reading Carol Dweck’s Mindset, I had a realisation that genuinely embarrassed me. I had a fixed mindset. Not the lazy person’s fixed mindset. Not the “I give up easily” version. The sophisticated, high-achieving, quietly terrified version. The one where you’ve spent your whole career being the smart one in the room, and somewhere along…
The average time a person focuses on a single screen task has dropped from 150 seconds (2.5 minutes) in 2004 to approximately 47 seconds as of 2023. That’s not a fun productivity stat. That’s a crisis. For professionals trying to stay relevant in the AI era, concentration isn’t a nice-to-have skill. It’s the foundation everything else sits on. AI…