I'm halfway through reading Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen's updated version of Difficult Conversations and the chapter titled 'Abandon Blame: Map the Contribution' caught my eye and the end of my digital highlighter.

Taking a step back, Stone et al. frame success around difficult conversations by identifying which …

Each year, I write my Annual Review and share it publicly. My Annual Review answers three questions.

1. What went well this year?
2. What didn’t go so well this year?
3. What did I learn?

What Went Well This Year?

Work

I grew into my role as an assistant principal by …

In Deep Work by Cal Newport, he motivates his thesis with "a philosophical argument for depth." I'm not one who needed convincing, but I was intrigued by the work of Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly that Newport cites.

Dreyfus and Kelly argue in the conclusion of All Things Shining …

In his book What We Owe Each Other, American philosopher T.M. Scanlon presents his contractualist view that morality of an action is rooted in its connection to what is owed to others.

I only fancy myself a novice in the field of Philosophy, so I will leave the deep …

Many years ago I read Marshall Goldsmith's book Triggers and one section I return to often is The Parable of the Empty Boat.

Here's Goldsmith's version:

A young farmer was covered with sweat as he paddled his boat up the river. He was going upstream to deliver his produce …

After reading Cal Newport's A World Without Email, I've embraced taking on the "The Hyperactive Hive Mind" that is incessant email communication.

My first order of business was adding to my email signature a message with my commitment of an email 5 sentences or less. In his blog, Mike Davidson …

After years of consuming the inspiring ideas of others, it's time for me to begin producing.

My goals with this site are

1. Share interesting things
2. Practice my communication skills

I am looking forward to figuring this out!