When I encountered the term "doom loop" in the Jim Collins book Good to Great, my brain filed the term away. And rather than apply it as intended—referring to a bad economic situation or aspect giving rise to another, then another, and so forth, in a "doom loop"—I started thinking about how certain conversations are … Continue reading On doom loop conversations
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A return to memo-writing & the “vagueness and nonsense” of conversation
In the past few weeks, I've finally had the time to dive into a couple of those big, monster projects—the type that you always talk about getting around to, but something more urgent always seems to come up. And yet here I am, with a pause in ongoing proposals (my firm is saturated with work), … Continue reading A return to memo-writing & the “vagueness and nonsense” of conversation