Adam Churchwell

We don’t question what we don’t know is questionable. It sounds like a riddle, but it is actually the quiet, invisible trap most of us have been living in since we were kids. Think back to your early days. A lot of us were told, in one way or another, to just figure it out. When there was guidance, it usually sounded like a variation of the same theme: don’t rely on anyone else. Stand on your own two feet. And that may be entirely true for some things. You absolutely need to know how to tie...

When Productivity Stops Solving the Problem For a long time, I thought the goal was just to get better at managing everything. I was focused on structure, on staying organized, on keeping up with what needed to be done. And to some extent, that worked. I got better at handling things, and I felt more in control of my day. But over time, I started to notice something that didn’t really sit right with me. Even as I got better at managing everything, I was still building a life where everything...

We have a strange obsession with perpetual motion. Somewhere along the line, we decided that if we aren’t moving, we aren't producing. If we aren't producing, we are falling behind. But here is the undeniable truth that we often forget while running on the hamster wheel of modern business: we are not objects. Objects stay exactly where you leave them until a force acts upon them. For an object to have value, it usually needs to be in use. But humans? We need stillness to actually appreciate...