Self Improvement
Walking the Line
Acceptance without growth is stagnation. Growth without acceptance is self-rejection. The real challenge is learning to walk that line.
Topaz Adizes
Topaz Adizes is the author of 12 Questions for Love and the founder of The Skin Deep, an Emmy-award-winning experience design studio exploring relationships through intimate, structured dialogue.
Confusion
When You Don't Know Which Way is Up
Here's what I’ve learned: when everything speeds up, slow down. When things get loud, quiet your mind. When you're flooded with conflicting signals—don’t react, root. Don’t reach for certainty—return to presence.
Life Lessons
Life is the Master
What becomes of us isn’t simply what life does to us. It’s what we make together in the tension, in the dance, in the space where who we are meets what life demands.
History
What We Build Reveals What We Worship
So what does it say that OpenAI’s models wouldn’t shut down, but others did?
Love
The Fear Behind the Love
We talk a lot about the fear of losing love. But there’s another fear that’s rarely named: The fear of being loved.
A.I.
The Superpower of AI Isn't Knowledge. It's Time
AI isn’t just changing how we do things—it's shifting how one relates to time itself. And when your relationship to time changes, everything else follows: money, power, attention, even our sense of who we are.
Questions
Don’t Fill the Space—Open It
A good question can change a conversation. And a conversation can change a life.
Questions
The Question Makes the Difference
The real issue is we rarely question the question. We take them at face value— often inherited from others, half-formed or just lazy accepting what is before us. We don’t stop to ask: is this even the proper most useful frame?
Leadership
Trust is the Currency of Success
We think leadership is about being seen. We think teamwork is about showing up. Not anymore.
Communication
Don’t Be on the Same Page
The goal isn’t to agree on everything. That kind of forced sameness backfires into a false sense of cohesion. The goal is to make space for difference. To develop fluency in one another’s inner world. To build a shared context—so the tension is generative, not destructive.
What a Reddit AI Experiment Got Right—And What We're Still Missing
We should be concerned. Of course. But if all we see is the breach of ethics, we’re missing something much bigger.
Distance Is Not the Problem
We keep treating the digital space like a cheap copy of the physical one. Trying to squeeze eye contact through pixels. Mistaking silence for absence. Forgetting that intimacy is not proximity—it’s presence.