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Five things I’ve been thinking about this week.

Some are about slowing down. Some about identity. Some about what creates safety. And one question has been on my mind about where we are heading as creators.

Just a few things worth sitting with.

What if the goals we use to measure people are already out of date? Are we measuring progress or simply measuring how closely someone followed an old plan?

What do we know about burnout? Is it even real? How do you know if someone is burned out or not?

What if something we think we understand is only the beginning of what there is to see?
What might we notice if we looked at the familiar with unfamiliar eyes?
And what might we discover that we were never looking for?

We all have a bank that gives us 86,400 units every morning. We call it time. Where we spend it often reveals more than what we say matters. When those choices repeat across a team, they begin to form patterns that shape how an organization works. What is our time making possible?

What if good leadership is less about perfect processes and more about judgement? What if giving someone space during burnout doesn’t have to mean silence? And what if we’ve become so busy learning, parenting and communicating through screens that we’ve forgotten how much we learn simply by experiencing and talking to each other?