The Sunday Summary: Doing the next right thing, being a high agency person, and the ruthless elimination of hurry

Here’s a bit about what I wrote, read and learned over the past week. I hope you find it helpful!

Blog posts from the past week

• How do they do it all? There are some people that seem to be able to do everything. How do they do it? By making intentional decisions on what not to do.
• Quick to forward but slow to consider. Our consumption is becoming increasingly sloppy, with people quick to forward things they agree with, but slow to actually dig into them.
• The next right thing. “Pastor Glade wanted to shrink this big existential question into something more digestible. He offered to his kids nine words of wisdom that guided us through our departure-and shaped how we live our lives today: “All you can do is the next right thing.””
• There is no reason for anything, only reasons. “It’s a basic tenet of design thinking that there is no reason for anything. There are only ever reasons, multiple reasons. When our business fails, we go to the excuse and say, it failed because of reason and it’s usually external reason, but if you look at how species go extinct, it’s a combination of, it’s called the press pulse theory, pressure, constant pressure, and then a pulse. We blame the pulse, the external thing that happened to us. We don’t take stock of our role in the ongoing pressure that the business was feeling…