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  • Finding Focus in a Content-Heavy World

    Finding Focus in a Content-Heavy World

    Long-form is the way. There is something that happens to my mind after I’ve consumed too much content. There is a tipping point. A cliff’s edge. It always starts small – checking emails which leads to clicking links; reading pages, then paragraphs, then headlines; gathering all the relevant inputs for the day’s workflow. Just a…

  • Begin Again

    Begin Again

    A new chapter. A blank page. A fresh start. I love all the promise of a new beginning. The allure of it. All the potential that lays ahead of how we might be different, of how we might do things differently. Many of us do – it’s why we set new year’s intentions, or buy…

  • Spring in a Pandemic (Year Two)

    Spring in a Pandemic (Year Two)

    March arrived once again, a whole year now since this all began; bringing with it, as it always does, signs of spring – buds emerging and flowers blooming. Each day grows longer, the light extending with the promise of a new, lighter season ahead. And yet here we are. A new season greets us still…

  • The New Normal

    The New Normal

    Seven weeks ago, the world changed. What went from scattered news reports of a virus that seemed a world away suddenly arrived on our doorstep, exploding across our screens, and changing the way we live. On the Friday before it all sunk in, I was still stopping for a coffee on my way to work,…

  • Pause, Detox and Reset

    Pause, Detox and Reset

      Summer: it is a time for rest. A time for ease, and flow, and hush. The heat of this season has finally arrived and with it the dog days of summer, of laying out, of soaking in. It is a time of year that reminds us to pause and seems almost antithetical to stress.…