Mike Vardy

There’s a scene in The Pursuit of Happyness that has stayed with me for years, and it has nothing to do with Will Smith’s performance.

His character, Chris Gardner, is given the same list of potential clients every other intern gets — ranked...

There’s a phrase that has become so embedded in professional culture that most people don’t even notice it anymore: time management.

We build systems around it, buy planners for it, and take courses in it. And yet, for all the infrastructure we construct in its name, most people still feel perpetually behind — stretched, scattered, and vaguely guilty about ...

There’s a quiet question that doesn’t get asked often enough: What happens if I do nothing?

Not out of apathy. Not out of avoidance. But out of intention.

We’ve built a culture that equates action with value. Movement with meaning. Output with identity. And so when something appears broken—whether it’s a system, a situation, or a relations...

There is a word most of us use fifteen to twenty times a day, and almost nobody has stopped to examine what it actually does to us.

Try.

We use it because it sounds reasonable. Responsible, even. “I’ll try to get that to you by Friday.” “I’m trying to be more intentional about my mornings.” “We should try to get together sometime.” It signals effo...