"If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean

Writing advice for the day: Struggling to start? Go messy first—then refine

Embracing kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, teaches us to value imperfections. In writing and content creation, our drafts may crack under scrutiny, but those flaws are where beauty shines through. Revise, refine, and let your unique voice mend

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. ~Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi

Marvin Bower built McKinsey & Company through words. With memos, letters, speeches, and books that brought clarity to complex ideas and aligned people around shared values. I never had the privilege to meet him before he passed away. But his presence continues to be felt

Let’s hope this helps resolve this long standing problem. Amazing how creators have to bend over backwards to drop links into comments to circumvent the algorithm. It shouldn’t have to be that way.

Seven of the eight prize-winners at this year’s Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw are of East Asian descent. This can’t be a coincidence. First prize: Eric Lu (US; his mother is from Shanghai, his father is from Taiwan) Second prize: Kevin Chen (Canada; his parents are of

When I joined McKinsey 28 years ago, one name that quickly became familiar was Barbara Minto—along with the Pyramid Principle she created to help consultants structure their communications for greater impact. Minto discovered something powerful while editing reports at McKinsey

After 28 years at McKinsey, I’ve seen one thing consistently set great work apart: the ability to solve hard problems. And here’s something I realized early on —writing is problem-solving too. Every time you write, you’re taking disorganized, half-formed ideas and turning them

I just returned from New York City, the global capital of culture and capitalism. The energy of this place is truly unmatched. While my parents are from Pittsburgh and I grew up in South Florida, my family has deep ties to this great city along the Hudson River. My great

This week, two of the seven laureates of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering stood out for their incredible accomplishments and similarly compelling back stories—Dr. Fei-Fei Li and Jensen Huang. First, both are Chinese: Fei-Fei was born in Beijing; Jensen was born in

A decade ago, researchers at Princeton found that students who took notes by hand remembered and understood more than those who typed on laptops. Why? Writing forces us to slow down, distill ideas, and engage with them rather than simply transcribe words. Now, scientists in

Some of my best ideas arrive while I’m walking. Not at a desk, not facing a screen—just walking. Movement propels thought. When you walk, blood flows faster, oxygen floods in, and the brain’s neural networks fire up. Research confirms this isn’t just feel-good wisdom—it’s

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Congrats to the @Neuralink team for helping many people who have lost use of their body with our Telepathy implant that enables computer use simply by thinking! The next generation Neuralink cybernetic augment with 3X capability will be ready later this year. Pending regulatory

If Elon Musk can bring sight to the blind, it will outdo every one of his near-miraculous achievements to date. With all of the ‘bad news’ that circulates to drive your attention, it is important to be reminded that we have so much more to be optimistic about.