Content whose primary subject is how an individual manages their own psychology, focus, habits, or relationship with work. The unit of change is the *person themselves*, not their business or team.
This Deep Dive explains what a true 1:1 meeting is, why it improves both employee engagement and managerial performance, what cadence and duration work best, how to keep the meeting owned by the direct report rather than drifting into status updates, and how to structure, run, and evaluate 1:1s so they become a real management system rather than a calendar ritual.
LeadershipMindset
Advisories
The moment your startup mindset becomes a liability to your growing business
The behaviours that got your business to where it is are not the same behaviours that will take it further. Most founders know this in the abstract. What is harder — and what this Advisory addresses — is recognising when the transition is already overdue, what specifically needs to change, and why the hardest part of the whole thing is not redesigning the organisation but changing how you personally operate within it.
MindsetLeadership
Digests
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Why knowledge workers are burning out: the Thoreau schedule
Deep Questions with Cal NewportJune 9, 2025
Deep work & focus9
Productivity & habits8
Long-term planning6
Offices copied the factory shift model for brains — that's the burnout cause
A 2–3 hour deep work day may match output of an exhausting eight-hour one
AI ethics lags AI fluency by centuries — unsettling edge cases are inevitable