Hi Reader! Daria’s here. Have you ever noticed that we’re all doing too much and still not feeling caught up. The pace of change is high, the pace of work is higher, and AI pushed it up another level. Now that we know we can produce so much more, it’s as if we feel guilty when we don’t. So we push ourselves, we push our teams, we push our organizations — without stopping to ask: Are we moving in the right direction? Are we creating value? What’s the ROI? Does any of this make sense? I...

Hi Reader! Daria’s here. For most of my career, I pushed through. Whatever it cost. Merging 500 people in an M&A that closed in a few months. A full restructure. A major telecom rebrand. I got it done. Every time. And then I’d get sick. It took me years to realize that most things don’t fail during a crisis. They fail after it. We brace for the disruption, push through it, then treat the recovery as automatic. It isn’t. Decision quality drifts. Alignment loosens. And because the emergency is...

Hi Reader, What do you think the top AI use is in 2026? Harvard Business Review studied 12,637 real cases of people using AI. And the #1 is Therapy and companionship — same as 2025. The most common way people use AI is for their personal life. To talk something through. Across all 12,637 cases, we see three main scenarios. People use AI to think, to feel, and to work. To feel — they talk through stress, ask for relationship advice, or work out what a message from their boss really meant. To...