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The Status Loop: How Authority Turns Into Power, and Power Turns Into Abuse
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
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Nov 21, 20255 min read
The Trespass of Doubt: How Some People Shift Their Insecurities and Manipulations Onto Others
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
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Nov 19, 20253 min read
Fast decisions in slow companies: ethics, (a bit of) humor and the 2Cs for Corporate Contradiction
This essay is a deeper dive into the real-world challenges behind the hopeful ideas I shared in my shorter LinkedIn post “ When work...
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Aug 11, 20253 min read
KB-Room 355, on Voice, Power, and the Quiet Work of Courage (sequel)
A few days after I left the hospital, after sending an email summarizing what former doctors had diagnosed and explaining, in concrete...
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Jul 20, 20255 min read
What would it mean to lead with the Principle of Charity in today’s world?
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...
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Jul 6, 20253 min read
KB-Room 355, a Voice, a Question: On Bias and Knowing
I just spent several days in a hospital’s research unit. My roommate was a caucasian woman admitted for suspected fibromyalgia. Her...
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Jul 4, 20253 min read
"Beyond Likeability: The Courage to Lead Amidst Unspoken Trips to Abilene"
I have often seen a hidden struggle in leadership: the pull between taking care of others and the fundamental need to care for yourself....
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Jun 11, 20252 min read
“Instinctively”: When Leadership Refuses to Think"
Recently, I heard the word “instinctively” used to justify a serious decision. The word caught my attention, not because it was new, but...
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Jun 11, 20252 min read
“Accountability”: When Everyone Looks Away
Within one week, I heard three statements that stayed with me: At an elite European business school: “We’re accountable for our students’...
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Jun 11, 20251 min read
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