The Third Half: New Year’s Resolutions

Probably Won’t Keep All of These

In 2026, The Third Half resolves to:

• Publish fewer posts that begin with

“As we head into 2026…”

(Unless we’re very, very tired.)

• Stop pretending everything is “a conversation.” Some things are just opinions. And that’s OK.

• Avoid recycled leadership quotes. Whether misattributed to Peter Drucker or lifted wholesale from Simon Sinek slides circa 2012.

• Become better interviewers. Listen more. Pause longer. And on the Blueprint podcast, stop chaining six questions together like we’re worried the guest might escape mid-sentence.

• Talk about sustainability without whispering, apologising, or adding “but I fly sometimes” as a disclaimer.

• Continue gently annoying the anti-climate-change brigade, especially those who say:

“I’m not anti-environment, BUT…” and then proceed to be exactly that.

• Resist the urge to post fake urgency. If everything is “critical,” “game-changing,” or “the biggest shift in a generation,” then… none of it is.

• Ask better questions, not louder ones. No hot takes. No shouting. No pretend certainty.

• Celebrate people doing thoughtful, imperfect, practical things rather than those selling shiny answers with suspiciously neat edges.

• Remember that progress is messy, humans are contradictory, and anyone claiming it’s simple probably has a course to sell.

• Remain cheerfully allergic to bullshit, including our own.

We’ll still get some of this wrong.

We’ll still waffle occasionally.

And yes — we’ll probably still post something ironic about not posting ironic things. But we’ll keep showing up.

Curious. Constructive. Slightly irreverent. And firmly on the side of People, Planet, and Progress — in that order.

Happy New Year 🥃

Scott and Happy

aka — The Third Half