Podcast

On Nash's old pyramid of how we spend our time, why we move to escape when meaning goes missing, and the quiet waste of every evening we don't get back.

On the many intelligences we carry, why we reward the few that are easy to measure, and the subtle waste - mottainai - of every gift we never think to grow.

People hand a workshop teacher the things they can't get back — time, energy, attention. On why running one is teaching, not facilitating, and the craft that difference demands.

Time blocking looks like controlling time. Used well, it's the opposite: a way of seeing where your time actually goes

I joined a community group that met, discussed, minuted and solved precisely nothing. On the one question that fixed it — and the three that follow — none of which needs a single new tool.

In 2006 a stranger at a conference told me how much he hated his life — his job, his boss, probably the sandwiches. On the difference between succeeding and thriving, and why thriving is something you choose rather than something that accumulates.