Five is for the five year plan!*

I am not a planning sort of person. But when I first started my company, I read seven hundred and fifty million websites about writing business plans. And at least ten library books and back issues of a bunch of online noozletters. The majority of these expressed the...

We don’t need to be big.

We don’t need to think big. We don’t need to do big things. We don’t need to be big. No. Let me say it like this: We don’t need to be big in order to be biggified. And certainly not any bigger than we want to. Some explaining. Some people think...

Side effects.

Interesting phenomenon. There’s this thing that happens while on your way to figuring something out. Or: on your way to getting something you want. It’s all the incredibly useful, unlikely and surprising things you manage to learn, discover, untangle, trip...

Setting and place.

One of the most fascinating (to me) practices, both in the world of self-helpishness and in terms of business biggification is working with setting. I’ve hinted about this in stories about the Playground — the elements that came together to create it, the...
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