Category: Management

I was sitting in a sun-drenched cafe in Lisbon last year, clutching a hand-painted ceramic mug and staring at my laptop, feeling that familiar, heavy knot of frustration in my chest. I had just spent forty minutes in a “sync” meeting that could have been a two-sentence Slack message, watching…

I was sitting in a tiny, sun-drenched cafe in Lisbon last year, clutching a ceramic mug adorned with a whimsical dancing fox, when I realized how much I hated the “hustle harder” narrative. Everywhere I looked—in tech startup hubs and even in my own old project management textbooks—there was this…

I was sitting in a tiny, sun-drenched café in Lisbon last year, clutching a hand-painted ceramic mug and staring at my bullet journal, when it hit me: why are we all so obsessed with buying more expensive software to fix our communication gaps? We’ve been sold this myth that the…