Notes

Shorter pieces and dispatches between issues. Some land on their own. Others may end up reframed in a future issue. Either way, they publish when they're ready rather than waiting for the quarterly calendar to come around.

May 11, 2026

House's Greenhouse

Or: How Eric Newhouse Brought Kauai to the 20th Floor

The plants in Eric Newhouse's office did not arrive on purpose. Nobody bought them for him. Nobody assigned them to him. They just — at some point, one by one — showed up. And Eric, being Eric, did not say no.

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May 11, 2026

The Hour That Compounds

Or: What I Walked Out of a Kyoto Starbucks With

On a Friday night in Japan, mid-vacation, my phone buzzed with a text from one of our sales reps. I sat down to write one document under pressure. I walked away three days later with seven artifacts and a system. Here's the math behind that cascade, the one condition it requires, and a personal guarantee about what one hour a day will do.

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