Books.
Four of them so far. A talk lets an idea live in a room for an hour. Writing is where I get to stay with it afterwards, when the room has emptied and there is nothing carrying it but the thinking.
Latest
Nothing Ever Lasts
Demanding permanence from things that were always going to change.
Out of print
We’ve Screwed Up This Life
Making life make sense so you can get on with living it.
Out of print
The Cure for Wellness
The greatest deceptions about our wellbeing.
Out of print
After the Dotted Lines
The art of preventing your customers from ever leaving you.
Nothing Ever Lasts
A book about what happens when human beings ask temporary things to provide permanent security. Relationships change. Bodies change. Careers change. Success changes. People leave. We change. A great deal of suffering begins when we demand permanence from things that were never capable of providing it.
Not a system. Not a promise to fix you. A book you read slowly and then catch yourself thinking about at strange hours.
What it keeps coming back to.
It is really one subject approached from a lot of angles. The distance between what we carry around inside and what we manage to say. The things people only explain after the moment has passed. Grief, and the conversations that never got finished. Why confidence tends to arrive after the action rather than before it. How much of our unhappiness is built out of an assumption about how life was supposed to go.
I write most days.
The Daily Letter
A regular letter on the mind, expression and what sits underneath performance. One observation at a time, and no five-step system waiting at the end of it.
The podcast
Short-form thinking on communication, happiness, suffering, performance and freedom. One question at a time, taken seriously.