Right Attitudes

Most entrepreneurs treat each new venture as a fresh start. Indonesian entrepreneur Johnny Andrean never did. Every business he built grew out of the one before it—same market, same consumer instincts, sharper execution. The result was three distinct brands, a regional footprint, and one very deliberate pattern: going adjacent. Andrean grew up in Kalimantan, where […] Wondering...

Startup advisor Eric Ries didn’t invent the MVP, the pivot, or validated learning. His contribution was to gather scattered ideas into a coherent framework and hand it to a generation of founders who wanted structure for navigating uncertainty. He did that in his widely cited 2011 book, The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous […] Wondering What Else To Read? ...

C. S. Lewis’s The Four Loves (1960) emerged from a series of radio talks he gave in 1958, designed to explore love through both Christian theology and philosophical inquiry. His intent was not merely descriptive but devotional: to show that all forms of love—even the flawed, natural ones—are reflections of divine design. Within a Christian […] Wondering What Else To Read?

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.—Benjamin Whichcote (British Religious Figure) When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can’t be cured.—Anton Chekhov (Russian Short Story Writer) Never let a problem to […]

There’s a name for it. FOTO—Fear of Throwing Things Out. It sounds like a joke, but anyone who has stood frozen over a box of old birthday cards knows it isn’t. We hold onto things because they hold us back in time. That ceramic mug from a holiday you barely remember. The jacket that doesn’t […] Wondering What Else To Read?