Introducing Microprinciples

An ethics newsletter all about you

For years I collected Post-it notes on a wall facing my workstation. They were pithy mantras to help me think differently, get unstuck, or remember a perspective. Murder your first born ideas. Boredom is the amuse bouche. Sometimes the answer is water. One day at work, I posted a photo of this wall to Slack, and my coworkers demanded I explain what they all meant. That was the beginning of this newsletter.

Each microprinciple is a small idea with a long reach. They are neither life-hacks nor commandments. They are little handles to hold when you lose your footing. Certainty is a feeling, not a fact. Comfort is a curse. They come from my own lived experience as a writer and designer, and as a thinking, breathing, loving human being.

Aiming for somewhere between “commandment” and “you know what to do”

Every week I send a short essay built around a single idea, written to one person. Some will Dad you headlong into a direction. Others sit shotgun like Mom, gasping for the brakes.

If you want to go deeper than a weekly read, I also offer coaching journeys for people at a threshold: beginning something new, navigating the abyss, or finally writing the big thing. Think of it as a two-person writing workshop where the story you’re writing is your life.

Thank you for subscribing. Read slowly, and see which ones stick to your wall.

V. Sri