Writing
A changed mind. Help with an opinion. Work that follows us home.
Essays & thoughts
Leadership series
What Leadership Asks of Us
Leadership shapes other people's time, choices, and work.
Explore the seriesA Decision Is Not a Defense
The responsibility to decide includes the responsibility to reconsider. What have we learned that could change this judgment?
Give People Room to Decide
If someone has to answer for the result, they need the authority, trust, and support to make it possible.
The Weight of a Leader’s Yes
A leader’s yes is a claim on someone else’s time. What will make that promise possible?
When help gets a vote
One choice is right there. The other requires explaining yourself. On a tired day, that is quite a vote.
What the number leaves out
The chart looks better. I want to know where the unfinished work went.
I understand. Now what?
The people living with the pattern may be waiting for a different development.
Let me think about that
What would make it easier to come back with a different answer?
From the books
Back to sectionsEverything We Asked For
Speculative novel
404: Conscious Not Found
Speculative novella
The Inconvenient Human
Personal nonfiction
What Must Be Allowed to Wait
If I require permanent completion before I permit myself to be present, presence will remain postponed for the rest of my life.
Belonging Without Ownership
The easiest person to reduce is the one we do not need to know.
The Other Side of the Story
Each account could be sincere and still be incomplete.
Being Needed
I permitted myself to carry more easily than I permitted myself to be carried.
What Continues
Inheritance is not limited to the qualities we admire.