Content addressing the understanding and navigation of emotions in professional and personal contexts. These pieces explore how emotional awareness shapes relationships, organizational culture, and our capacity to connect meaningfully with others.
Conversation’s greatest value emerges when we abandon the pursuit of utility. Like art or contemplation, its importance lies in its apparent uselessness—creating meaning and connection that transcends instrumental purpose.
In the laboratory of love, chemistry gets the credit, but physics governs our connections. While poets speak of burning passion and hearts growing cold, couples negotiate a more literal thermal equilibrium—where compatibility is measured in degrees Celsius (or Fahrenheit).
Emotional bureaucracy—the internalization of administrative logic into our most intimate psychological processes—transforms how we experience life itself. We become both bureaucrat and bureaucratized, simultaneously administering and being administered by our own hearts.
Learning and change processes aren’t always helped by avoiding the dark side.
Three kinds of conversation help to build more effective and harmonious teams.
