The Difference AI has already commoditized analysis, and the models will keep improving. Logic isn’t a differentiator in business. But you have access to a type of knowing AI doesn’t have: intuition.  I have a healthy respect for logic and data. I built my first business around it. But the longer I work with founders, the more I

Why You’re Tired Your business isn’t what’s making you tired, even though it seems that way. Avoiding your emotions is what drains most of your energy. It takes effort to resist uncomfortable feelings.  The problem is, we never really avoid the feeling. We just trade one bad feeling for another. The energy cost of that trade is what wears us out. There’s a pattern

Presence Isn’t Private Your thoughts and feelings aren’t as private as you think. Your inner state is broadcasting and other people pick up on it: your team, clients, prospects and partners. That’s why who you’re being matters even more than what you’re doing. I remember years ago organizing what I thought would be a great team-building event at a culinary

Your Business Is Your Teacher We think what’s important are the big things: the launch, the deal, the exit. But the real tests happen in the small moments. When the team misses a deadline. When a customer cancels. When the product fails. That’s when our level of consciousness shows. What Does It Mean to Be

I came across a poem recently that struck me deeply. It captures what it means to live without awareness and what other choices are possible when we become conscious. Autobiography in Five Short Chapters by Portia Nelson Chapter 1.I walk down the street.There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.I fall in.I am lost… I

Two Nobel Prize physicists declared something radical nearly a century ago: consciousness doesn’t come from matter. Matter comes from consciousness. It’s the opposite of what we’ve been taught to believe. Business is Downstream of Consciousness If consciousness is fundamental, then even business is downstream of it. As founders, we build companies, set milestones, and strive