The 3 Things I Learned This Week — May 17th, 2026 Edition

Happy Sunday.

The work week is over. The next one has not started yet. This is the small window I have come to value more than almost any other window on the calendar. It is the only time I get where I am not actively producing something or actively planning to produce something. It is the day I sit down and ask the question I do not ask often enough during the rest of the week, which is, what did I actually learn.

Not what did I do. Not what got shipped. What did I learn, and is the learning going to change anything about how I show up next week.

Three things landed this week. Some of them landed gently. One of them did not. Here they are.

ONE: THE GAP BETWEEN INTENTION AND BEHAVIOR IS USUALLY ONE SPECIFIC OBSTACLE

I had a conversation early in the week that took a turn I was not expecting, and it ended up being one of the more useful conversations I had in a while.

The setup was familiar. Someone I work with was frustrated about a specific habit they keep trying to install and keep failing to install. We had been over it before. They knew what they wanted to do. They knew why it mattered. They had read the books, watched the videos, set up the systems. None of it was…