The Next Mountain

The Room I Was Never Quite In

The top job came earlier for me than it did for anyone I knew, and the first thing it cost was company.

Conditions Apply

Most people learn this at forty-five and take it as betrayal. It is not betrayal.

I Was One of Them

The lesson only ever arrives one way, and it is not the way anybody wants.

The Camp You Never Built

The lower camps get stocked on the way up, at the exact moment it feels like a waste of good weather.

A Quiet Quarter Is Not Good News

A calm company and a healthy company file exactly the same report.

I sleep well