Your Daily Gist — March 22, 2026

Hi Quay, welcome to Daily Gist — your newsletters, distilled into conversation! Today: your brain lies about being tired, executive calendars are strobe lights, and why inflation is actually the economy's WD-40. The strobe light image for executive calendars is a jarring way to start. Most people imagine the C-suite as this high-altitude sanctuary for deep strategy, but that description suggests a level of fragmentation that's almost hallucinatory.