Banks Benitez

Personal Reflections

Where Rural meets Urban

“The soil is the great connector of lives.”

Climate

Climate Technologies

The climate technologies we need to hit our climate targets already exist.

Conscious Leadership

Invisible Forces

The importance of being reminded of the invisible forces in our lives

Conscious Leadership

The art of quitting

Leaders need the ability to quit things they’ve previously committed to.

Conscious Leadership

On fast-food work cultures

Despite its many benefits, remote work will lead to the fast-food-ification of company culture.

A Proposal

A life of new horizons ahead

On Rest

Rest as a reconciliation between doing and being

On my relationship to work

Revisiting my relationship to work

On Work Time

Every time we reinforce the belief that working hard is a badge of honor in our work culture, we reinforce our inability to ever break free from working hard.

On Time and Trade-offs

Every choice is a trade-off

On Addictive Technology

When we increase the consciousness of our attention, we increase our power to direct it.

On Artificial Intelligence

2022, a rubicon for AI

On the Questions Between Chapters

How do we show up when we’re in between major chapters in our lives?

On Humility

Any success is a correspondence between us and the world

2022

The Insider - 9 Reflections on 2022

Looking back on 2022 with nine reflections

Death of a Salesman

The power of honest of art

On our Inability to Build

Why does it cost so much to build? And what does it mean for the clean energy transition?

On Generative AI

Exploring Generative Artificial Intelligence

On My Next Step

I am joining Ezra Climate

2022

The Insider - November 2022

On my next professional step, generative AI, our inability to build, and the power of honesty in art.

2022

The Insider - October 2022

The radical choice to take a sabbath every week

Personal Reflections

Brothers' Trip

One of life’s great joys and surprises is to continue to discover delightful new parts of the people we think we know best.

Personal Reflections

On Sincerity

To constantly live at the edge of our sincerity is to deny the seasonality of ourselves.

Personal Reflections

Our relationship to time

What kind of approach to time does this moment call for?

Impact

Giving away Patagonia

Our legal structures drive organizational outcomes.