I came across a thought provoking tweet recently: “Be careful about getting good at things you don’t want to do.” This reminded me of the advice: Don't major in minors. Don't specialise in making issues out of non-issues. As obvious as that sounds, it is fairly easy to fall into that trap if we are…

When Francis was elected, he was asked to step up on a short pedestal to greet the thousands who had gathered in St. Peter’s Square. He refused, saying: “I like it down here.” He refused to put himself above anyone. And that was within minutes of his election. Before he became Francis, he was Bergoglio.…

The Maasai tribe have roamed Tanzania and Kenya for centuries. And, given the challenges of living amidst the world’s largest lion population, the rite of passage for Maasai boys to become “warriors” was to kill a lion. This created a problem because over time, this decimated the lion population in Tanzania. It is estimated that…

It is not always easy to measure what matters. Sometimes, the thing that matters does not make it easy for you to measure it. The easiest path is to find a stand-in for what you care about and measure that instead. For example, websites do not actually care about how many minutes someone spends on…

In our culture, it is easy to choose to live in deficit, in scarcity. To spend just a bit more money than you make, so that you are in debt. To need to drive just a bit faster than the prevailing traffic around you, so you can push every interaction. To measure yourself against someone…

Do you measure how a day went? If yes, how do you measure it? There are multiple options: A feeling of satisfaction / happiness Time spent on productive work Time spent on top 3 priorities Top priorities accomplished Number of To-Do-List items accomplished Time spent having fun Making someone feel better about themselves …etc. The…

Does our new ability to see things with web data make the previously overlooked now visible, or are we giving weight to things merely because we' have measured them? Is something important because you measure it, or is it measured because it is important?  

... does not mean you should. One of the things I have recently started to appreciate is that measuring your life on too many scales makes it difficult for your go deep on what matters. Reducing your metrics to a few things that matters, say your family life, your career and your spiritual life may…