Insights & Essays

A public archive of distilled thinking and where insight meets action.

Want to lead, create, and work in rhythm - without sacrificing your capacity or presence?

The ThriveOps newsletter explores how leaders can structure time, decisions, and culture to support human rhythms.

Shared when there’s something worth sharing.

Intentional Leadership

Build systems that scale, at scale. Explore frameworks for aligning teams, setting sustainable rhythms, and scaling your vision without the chaos.

🐌 The High Cost of Being Busy: Why Pseudo-Productivity is a Leadership Failure

January 31, 2025

Cal Newport has heavily influenced me. His book Deep Work has helped set me apart from others in my career. Once a busy bee, I learned to embrace a “less is more” approach to my projects and to build my deep work muscle. Once again, Cal delivers with his latest book, Slow Productivity… Read More

🎢 Escaping the Dopamine Trap: Building Sustainable Productivity in a High-Speed World

March 13, 2025

I recently read Dopamine Nation by Dr. Anna Lembke, and it got me thinking—what can we learn from the dopamine reward system to help influence our businesses, our leadership, and how we show up as entrepreneurs? … Read More

Mindful Productivity

Move from time management to energy management. Explore frameworks for deep focus, circadian alignment, and building a workflow that supports your life.

🎭 Maximizing Morning Creativity by Skipping Stimulants

July 25, 2025

I’ve always been curious about the fine line between activation and overstimulation. While I love my morning coffee and post-sunrise movement, I noticed that some of my best creative bursts happen before either of those habits kick in.

This experiment was about testing that hunch: What happens if I skip both caffeine and exercise first thing, and dive straight into writing instead? Could my creative state deepen without external stimulation? Would my focus improve?… Read More

🧠 Deep Work Blocks & Circadian Rhythm Experiment

January 2, 2025

I’ve been learning about the power of our lighting environment—from getting sunlight in my eyes first thing in the morning to reducing blue light exposure at night. Inspired by this, I decided to test how aligning my deep work blocks with focus periods based on circadian rhythms would affect my productivity.. … Read More

The Lab Library

A curated collection of tools and templates designed to support both personal growth and organizational clarity.

The Library is free for subscribers—you’ll find the password at the bottom of each ThriveOps newsletter.

Personal Reflections

💡 Building Mindful HR and Ops Systems for Better Work

July 25, 2025

I've always been passionate about HR, marketing, operations, and strategy. However, for years, I struggled to understand how these things fit together.

At one point, I even drew a Venn diagram to map it out—hoping my career clarity would magically appear in the middle. (LOL, it did not. 🤪)

But over time, I realized the common thread:

Everything I love comes down to building better systems.… Read More

🖤 How Taking a Sabbatical Redefined My Career and Taught Me to Slow Down

August 22, 2024

Taking a sabbatical was never part of my grand plan, but life has a funny way of pushing us into opportunities we never knew we needed. After being laid off from a tech company that closed its Canadian office, I found myself with the rare gift of time. Thanks to a generous severance package and some savings, I had the financial cushion to take a year off—a sabbatical that would change my life in more ways than I could have imagined.

At first, the idea of stepping away from work felt foreign, almost reckless. I had always been driven by the need to create, to produce, to stay busy. … Read More

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