Filled with anxiety, I finally published my article on LinkedIn after laboring over it for a month. I was "returning" online after a year-long sabbatical. I'd exited my last business and I had yet to launch my next business. In the absence of a professional identity, this in-between period was...

  I remember the exact moment I hit one of my biggest career milestones. Years of sacrifice, late nights, and relentless focus had led to this. I should have felt on top of the world. Instead, an unexpected emptiness crept in. I brushed it off and told myself I just needed a bigger goal, a harde...

  "Shut down your computer", he yelled across the conference room. "Get a notepad. Thinking is a skill and you need to know how to do it right." It was my first day on the job at an elite strategy consultancy, fresh out of business school. Little did I know how gamechanging that day would be for...