The leaders I heard that from didn't respond in the moment. I think the note caught them off guard. It was much later - usually in person - when they mentioned what it means.

4/4

But years later, I have repeatedly heard "you have no idea how badly I needed that then".

But we all know just how badly they needed to hear it.

3/4

We are learning from each other all the time. But we rarely ever tell each other that.

It's lonely and discouraging.

I have sent many of these notes. I don't expect anything back. My peers are busy AF and accomplishing amazing things.

2/4

Awesome

agreed - we've put "decentalrize" and "decentralization" in our "Lazy Words and Phrases" list. By themselves the words are unhelpful. Everything has points of centralization. The questions becomes "Is it sufficiently decentralized on a particular axis?" and "Is it inappropriately centralized on ..."