The Missing Microsecond
The most important moment in every reaction is often the thing we skip right past. It's small enough to miss and important enough to change everything.
Become What is Possible


The most important moment in every reaction is often the thing we skip right past. It's small enough to miss and important enough to change everything.

There's a jar on my desk right now. It's full of confetti. Not the party kind, the kind made from old sticky notes, cut into tiny pieces after I finish whatever was written on them. By the end of the month it's nearly full, and . . .

Em got recruited into a new role by a former colleague who promised her real support. For a while, it was great. Then the support quietly disappeared. She asked for it. She pushed for it, clearly and professionally.

This is either/or thinking. Black and white. All or nothing. If I tell my boss the full truth, he'll fire me, so I must say nothing. But in the dimmer space, there's a version of the truth that's gentler . . .