Banks Benitez

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The Insider - November 2024

On simplicity, doing singular work, and writing with uncommon honesty.

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The Insider - October 2024

The evocative soul of our work exists, it’s just hiding beneath our reasonable, incremental efforts.

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The Insider - August 2024

The new media landscape, Founder mode, failures of imagination, and the work of growing up.

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The Insider - July 2024

On playing it safe, the directionality of ambition, tolerance for managers, and aspen groves.

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The Insider - June 2024

On the delegation trap, the best newsletters in your inbox, and the West Coast Trail.

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The Insider - April / May 2024

On entitled fundamentalism, the void of strategy, the errors of climate tech, and morning routines.

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The Insider - March 2024

On wasting time, removing obstructions, and The Parenthetical.

The Insider - February 2024

On exceptional newsletters, when to avoid the corner office, freeing the mind, and nordic ski racing.

Freeing the mind for poetic surprises

The dampening of the poetic side of the consciousness

Conscious Leadership

When to avoid the corner office

Should the ambitious should aspire to positions of leadership?

On nordic ski racing

The misadventures of an amateur nordic skier.

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The Insider - January 2024

On conversational frames, the aristocracy of ideas, leadership by alignment, and all that remains unchanged.

What doesn't change

Tracing what hasn't changed in our lives.

The alignment of leadership

Alignment is 90% of the work.

The aristocracy of ideas

Our ego is hidden in the layers of nuance, not in the piercing, dressed-down truth.

Conversational frames

The conversational frames we select can be more important than our persuasive performances inside those conversations.

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The Insider - December 2023

On the intelligence of care, the pursuit of the tangible, the future of American cities, carbon credits, and cathedral building.

Personal Reflections

Coming home

Coming home

Climate

On carbon credits

Are carbon credits actual climate solutions?

Impact

The future of American cities

We are at the dawn of the next generation of the American city.

Personal Reflections

On the pursuit of the tangible

How is the architecture of my life a response to the architecture of modern society?

Conscious Leadership

The intelligence of care

Where there is deep care, there is profound intelligence.

Personal Reflections

On cathedral building

Building cathedrals in a short-term world.

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The Insider - November 2023

On the bias for inaction, the need for context, the attack on our attention spans, and the power of Think Weeks

Personal Reflections

Think weeks

Protecting space for thinking