There are days when you feel like you’re operating from a higher floor of the building.

You have perspective. Your body feels relatively open. The usual frictions are present, but they don’t dominate your field. A simple greeting, a trusted voice, or a certain kind of conversation seems to lift you...

Some leaders travel to India expecting temples and chaos.

They find that, and something else: a country that seems to specialise in extremes.

• Extremely rich, extremely poor
• Extremely beautiful, extremely ugly
• Extremely loud, extremely peaceful
• Extremely welcoming, and at times, requiring real
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On my desk, there is a strange lamp.

At first glance, it looks like a design object. But it is quietly doing something unusual: it is measuring the invisible.

Inside this lamp, beneath the light and glass, sits a high-quality coin flipper. In fact, there are two of them. They produce streams of ze...

Sometimes life leaves you with the unmistakeable sense that something is “pulling strings.”

You sign up for a random meetup to avoid eating alone and end up walking with someone you haven’t seen in over 30 years, who turns out to be deeply aligned with your current path.
Independent plans are cance...

In most organizations, randomness is just a nuisance.

• Markets move unexpectedly.
• Projects slip for reasons no one can fully explain.
• “Bad luck” and “perfect timing” are the phrases we use when things don’t fit our models.

We treat all that as noise.

But what if some of that noise is not as ...