Garrett Weiner

Why Underconsuming Feels Right After buying a carton of eggs from the store tonight, I fried three for dinner and boiled the other seven to eat later. The cashier noted that two of the twelve were cracked, so they gave me a dollar off — which brought the price from four down to three bucks. Not bad for pasture-raised eggs. Real ones. Not factory sludge in a shell. And for some reason, that little win — that dollar off — felt good. Not desperate. Not cheap. Just... right. I know a lot of...

What if trust isn't a trait or a transaction -- but presence in a dynamic system? We often think of trust as something you either have or don’t — something you build over time or break in an instant. Something that is simply felt. It’s also been a central theme in the professional world. For a time, trust was positioned as the “new currency” of leadership. In my own work with leaders and teams, the Trust Equation  — from Maister and Green's Trusted Advisor  — often took center stage: Trust =...

I just finished watching a movie — The Substance  — the first film I’ve seen in many months. I don’t spend much time watching movies, but one with a more mature Demi Moore and a storyline that felt a little twisted seemed like it might offer something. It did. Value, and a quiet kind of discomfort. Not shock. Not fear. Something closer. On the surface, it’s a story about aging, relevance, and the cruelty of an industry that feeds on youth. But underneath that, something else is happening —...