Reflection №daily-reflection-295-discipline-is-freedom
The phrase belongs to Jocko Willink and it sounds, on first hearing, like a contradiction or a piece of motivational sloganeering. Discipline is constraint. Freedom is the absence…
16 September 2026
Reflection №daily-reflection-294-in-praise-of-pressure
I have watched myself write a paper over six leisurely weeks and I have watched myself write a paper in the four days before a deadline. Often the…
15 September 2026
Reflection №daily-reflection-293-getting-things-done-feels-good
There is a particular kind of satisfaction that I do not think we talk about enough, and it is the plain, uncomplicated pleasure of finishing something. Not finishing…
14 September 2026
Reflection №daily-reflection-292-the-quiet-power-of-routines
For a long time I thought of routines as the enemy of an interesting life. Routine sounded like stagnation, like the slow settling into a rut, like the…
11 September 2026
Reflection №daily-reflection-291-wherever-you-go-there-you-are
I have changed country more than once. I have changed jobs, changed roles, changed the kind of work I do and the people I do it with. And…
10 September 2026
Reflection №daily-reflection-290-bored-yet-good
I want to make a case for boredom, and specifically for boredom as the birthplace of creativity. I have touched before on the brain's need for…
9 September 2026
