Overall a nice meditation and certainly all round good advice. I keep coming across this idea of the loneliness of leadership though. Perhaps necessary to the m

Overall a nice meditation and certainly all round good advice. I keep coming across this idea of the loneliness of leadership though. Perhaps necessary to the mood, I submit he skipped over the hard part. The loneliness of leadership, to me, is quite different from solitude. I have felt most lonely when I'm most busy. It's a sense that there's no one left to help. You've delegated everything you can, you've set aside everything you can, and still the work keeps coming in, often from people who depend on you, not necessarily outside sources. This is where you realize maybe you overcommitted on a few things and you start wondering if maybe the straights got it right: maybe pursuing that new idea wasn't worth it. Just keep things going. That's when you realize this leadership gig is harder than it looks. In your office at 1 am on Sunday when there's no one else. Maybe Steve Jobs wasn't so crazy calling people at oh-dark-thirty. By comparison, solitude has come to me almost as a reward, a gift from others who commit to letting me be alone long enough to get some thinking done.