How I Learned to Talk About Things That Are Changing
Five words that helped me describe interactions in people, organizations, and systems I have a recurring communication problem. Someone asks me a perfectly reasonable question about
Erich Stauffer
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Helping People See Who They Already Are
Years ago, while I was working at a growing consumer-products company, one of my coworkers said something about me that I have never forgotten: “Erich makes
Emotional GTD: How to Process Feelings Instead of Acting on Them
One of the most helpful insights I’ve had recently is that emotional maturity is a lot like Getting Things Done. In GTD, David Allen teaches that
What If AI Imagined a New Way to Compute? I Asked It To.
An experiment inspired by Nick Bostrom s Superintelligence In Nick Bostrom s book, Superintelligence, one of the ideas is that a sufficiently advanced AI might not just improve
Velocity, Acceleration, and Safety: Why Humans React to Change, Not Motion
Human conflict is often a response to changes in tempo rather than to the actions themselves. By naming acceleration as a distinct variable, we gain something
The Room of Requirement: Why Hidden Spaces Appear in Stories, Organizations, and Real Life
In Harry Potter, the Room of Requirement is one of the most powerful ideas in the entire series not because it’s magical, but because it’s
Authority, Winning, and the Cost of Staying Adjacent
This morning clarified something I’ve been circling for years but never named plainly: I have optimized for system impact, not personal authority. I’m very good at
Formation Over Validation: Living Forward Without Waiting
I’m starting to see the shape of the season I’m in more clearly now. It’s quieter than I expected, slower than I wanted, and far more
I’m Ok, It’s Alright
Alright, I m going to make up a song now from scratch. I know the first couple chords to it. It s A minor, C, G, and I
Every Hour
All right, this is a song I m working on. It has no name, but anyway, let s get into it. Okay, here we go. Every Hour If