Recent letters.
I Have Not Gone Back
The mountain is still there. I am four hours from it. I have not been.
The Ones I Backed
I never wrote it down, and I am still not sure it was judgement
The Books I Read to Feel Behind
The private practice behind this week's essay
The Message I Deleted
On the ask I keep dressing up so it does not look like an ask
The word with no scoreboard
Three words. Three decades. And the one I find hardest to live.
Why We Climb At All
You don't conquer the mountain. You conquer yourself.
Whats the First Thing You Need to Build a Taj Mahal
Ambition may start the climb. Only purpose carries you to the summit.
The One Thing You Cannot Delegate
You can hand someone the words. You cannot hand them the truth about your own life
What Are You Climbing For?
The question waiting on a staircase I had not climbed in 36 years.
The First 90 Days
Authority arrives on day one. Understanding arrives later. Leadership lives in the gap between them.
When the Map Runs Out
The loneliness of the top gets talked about often. The loneliness of being the first rarely does.
The Standing Rest
The preparation that is invisible until, suddenly, it is not.