Ideas
Ideas I'm working through about leadership, organizations, judgment, and the places where the apparent problem isn't always the actual one.
Expertise as a Blind Spot
Expertise gives us speed, pattern recognition, shorthand, and judgment. It can also make us so fluent in a frame that we stop noticing it is a frame.
Reflection vs. Rumination: Why Thinking Harder Is Not the Same as Thinking Better
Reflection and rumination can look almost identical from the inside. The difference is direction: reflection extracts something useful and carries it forward. Rumination keeps asking thought to produce an answer it may not be able to produce.
How to Find the Hidden Obstacle That Is Actually Preventing Progress
A project that looked like a construction-cost problem turned out to be a parking assumption nobody had thought to revisit. Sometimes the fastest way forward is to treat the given as a variable.