The Best of This Blog
This blog has been running since 2012. Hundreds of essays, written as I worked things out in public. Choosing the best is complicated, because there are two honest answers: the essays the world chose, and the ones I would choose.
The one the world chose
What is your Ikigai? is the most widely shared thing I have written. The diagram travelled far beyond the original essay, often without my name attached. Its exact worldwide reach is unknown. I have told the full story of where it came from, and what the West got wrong about it, in two later pieces: The Story Behind the Ikigai Venn Diagram and The Link Between Karma and Dharma. If the diagram is what brought you here, start at the Ikigai page.
Finding your own path
- Lessons from A Contrarian Life. The most recent look back at the whole journey.
- The Journey from Success to Significance
- You are Going to Die
- F*ck it! I'm Off to Change the World. Where a lot of this started.
- Do you want to know why I write this blog?
Seeing differently
- Tap the Loosest Brick. The metaphor I use most for how change actually happens.
- Blank Sheet Thinking
- What if the impossible was possible?
- The Apollo Principle
- Imaginal Cells
Connection
- Why having coffee is the foundation for everything I do. The origin of the 50 Coffee Adventure.
- You are the Average of the People You Spend the Most Time With
- Dealing with Dunbar's Number
- The Rat Park
Changing the place you live
- The Best Place to Live on Earth. The question that reshaped my island and my life.
- Why Small Nations Can Change the World
- The Journey to 100
- Economies of Care
Inside organisations
Practical guides for organisations
These guides apply the ideas to specific decisions facing founders and leadership teams.
- When an organisation loses its purpose, and how to find it again
- AI in your organisation: start with what you want it to make possible
- Clarity for founders: finding the one thing that matters
- What a leadership team is really disagreeing about
- Organisational inertia: why good teams stop moving
If you only read one more
A Summary of the Philosophy of The View Inside Me. Written after hundreds of essays, it is the closest thing to the whole journey in one place.
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