Mike Vardy

There’s a version of adjusting things that feels like progress and isn’t.

Somewhere in the last twenty years, efficiency stopped being a tool and became a worldview.

The two words look like variations on a theme.

There’s a particular kind of arithmetic people do after they miss something.

There’s a particular kind of ambition that shows up every January and every Monday: the decision to change several things at once.

Someone who only ever reads on their iPad mini will call it “her Kindle.”

Ask someone how work is going and you’ll often get a single word back: stressed.

There’s a quiet belief most of us carry without examining it: that a retreat is something you earn.

Most people assume they’ll leave a job the way water leaves a glass — slowly, unremarkably, until one day it’s just empty.

There’s a specific kind of realization that doesn’t announce itself as small.

Tom Griffiths titled his new book The Laws of Thought for a reason.

We talk about time like it’s a hallway.

There’s a particular kind of quiet that happens when a room full of accomplished people watches someone’s inbox on a screen and forgets what they came to learn.

I’ve spent years thinking, writing, and talking about why we procrastinate, so I came into this conversation with strong opinions already in place.

We tend to treat “tolerance” as a moral word — be tolerant, have tolerance for people who aren’t like you.