The Friday Roundup — May 29th, 2026 Edition

Another week down. The signal got clearer in some places, noisier in others. Both of those tell you something useful if you are paying attention.

This week was a week of edits. I have been cutting things. Cutting decisions out of my workflow, cutting noise out of my judgment, cutting expectations down to what I can actually deliver on. Every cut hurts a little. Every cut leaves something better behind.

Here is what fed the work this week. No filler. No content for the sake of content. Just the stuff that actually made me stop and think.

Grab your drink. Let us get into it.

BOOK OF THE WEEK

READING

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein

I picked this up because I have been obsessing over the gap between bias and inconsistency in my own decision making, and I figured if anyone was going to put words to what I was feeling, it would be Kahneman. He did. So did his co-authors. This book gave me language for something I had been circling for months without being able to name.

The premise is deceptively simple. Most of us think the enemy of good judgment is bias. We worry about being systematically wrong in a predictable…