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A doctor’s appointment should be a simple, respectful exchange: you explain what you feel, the doctor listens, and together you try to understand what is going on. But sometimes it becomes something else, it becomes the perfect stage for a small performance of status. Yesterday’s doctor didn’t really listen. “This, I have never heard in 25 years,” he said, not to open the conversation, but to end it. It reminded me of Hume’s Principle of the Uniformity of Nature : the assumpt

We imagine ethical challenges as grand events, but some of the most revealing tests of character happen quietly in corridors, elevators, and small moments of daily life. Coming back from a walk with my dog, I encountered a stranger: polite on the surface, incoherent in reasoning, and seemingly unaware of the boundaries he was crossing. He followed me into a private parking area, asked contradictory questions, invoked titles without relevance, and repeatedly suggested I might

This essay is a deeper dive into the real-world challenges behind the hopeful ideas I shared in my shorter LinkedIn post “ When work...

A reflection drawn from Wagner’s Lohengrin and the character of Elsa on silence, truth, and what it means to ask the question we’re not...

There is a particular kind of behavior that seems harmless on the surface, even kind, even generous, but upon closer inspection reveals a...

A few days after I left the hospital, after sending an email summarizing what former doctors had diagnosed and explaining, in concrete...

This again began as a philosophical exercise on reasoning, not a political post. But as I reflected more, I saw how deeply it connects to...

I just spent several days in a hospital’s research unit. My roommate was a caucasian woman admitted for suspected fibromyalgia. Her...

As a leadership coach, I see (and saw it when I was still working in the private sector) this uncertainty showing up in real decisions,...

I recently reflected on this question in a forum on critical reasoning, and it stayed with me: Is it a necessary condition of knowing...

I have often seen a hidden struggle in leadership: the pull between taking care of others and the fundamental need to care for yourself....

Recently, I heard the word “instinctively” used to justify a serious decision. The word caught my attention, not because it was new, but...

Within one week, I heard three statements that stayed with me: At an elite European business school: “We’re accountable for our students’...

“He acts according to the highest ethical standards.” I heard this in a TV interview, said easily, confidently, without pause. But...

What if we don’t have the answers because we never learned to ask the right questions? Or maybe it is not even about learning. Maybe we...

I recently wrote this in a forum on critical reasoning. As I reread it, I realized how deeply it speaks to the work I do as a leadership...