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Devin Singh - Leadership Kinetics

I help reflective, values-driven leaders, educators, and creatives move out of overthinking and indecision into clarity and confidence.

09/04/2025

If you’ve ever felt trapped in your own thoughts, stuck between options, or paralyzed by the pressure to get it right—you’re not alone. Overthinking isn’t just a habit. It’s a protective strategy we learn from deeper cultural stories about guilt, debt, and the need to earn our worth.

I’ve lived this too. I’m an overthinker in recovery. Did I hesitate before posting this? You bet. Do I think this post is perfect? Far from it. Did I conclude that this post could be helpful to others and to say “f**k the peanut gallery”? Here we are.

I’ve spent years learning how moral systems, money, and culture shape the way we think. Now, I help thoughtful people break out of those loops—not by shutting off their minds, but by stepping into new stories, clarity, and action.

Swipe through for a few quiet tools to recognize the pattern, question the story, and take one small, honest step forward.

If this speaks to you, follow for more reflections, frameworks, and support for overthinkers ready to move.

22/02/2024

Recently concluded another round of talking “Money, Meaning, and Morality” with MBA students at the The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

💡Session one tackled what money is and how it arose, critiquing the common myth that it emerged from barter and instead recalling the role of debt and authoritative institutions in money’s creation. What if money did not arise simply to make exchanges easier but as a tool of governance? Is monetary exchange purely neutral?

💡Session two examined the role of money in meaning making, comparing/contrasting it with gift exchange and considering its effects on intimate relationships. Should you give money as the best kind of gift? Should a stay at home partner receive a salary and if so from whom? Is a bonus a gift or part of a salary?

💡Session three explored the moral limits of markets, the ways monetary incentives may change motivation, and how money and happiness are related. Should certain public, common goods be priced? Do monetary incentives corrupt? Can you buy friends? Does money make us happy?

All in all a generative and intensive two days of conversation, with great insights, questions, and challenges from the students. My hope is that these reflections will help them become more self-aware leaders and managers concerning the uses and effects of money within their organizations as well as in their relationship networks.

13/06/2023

🤗 Excited to receive my contributor’s copy of this edited volume on “Religious and Cultural Implications of Technology-Mediated Relationships in a Post-Pandemic World”.

💡Despite the title being a mouthful, it’s a valuable collection of essays by various religion scholars reflecting on how technology is changing how we relate to one another.

🔦 Chapters focus on topics such as technological relationships with ancestors, tech and the arts, friendship and social media, tech and contemplation, and relationships with humanoid robots.

💶 My chapter explores digital and cryptocurrencies, whether we are headed for dematerialized economies, and why care remains essential in exchange relations.

➡️ Those of you interested in the intersection of technology with religion, spirituality, ethics, culture, or human futures may find this book of interest.

04/06/2023

⚡ Was fun to see my new course "Money, Meaning, and Morality" included in this list of featured, innovative courses at The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. I had a great time interacting with MBA students around vital issues of understanding what money is, why and how it works, how money shapes culture, and how we should relate to it in our quest for happiness, meaning, and fulfillment.

Here are just a few examples of the encouraging feedback I received about this course:

💡 "MBA classes usually focus on situations that maximize profit, but rarely consider the history of money and the benefits or concerns it raises. Learning about the role of money in economic exchanges and its role in “the good life” fascinated me. Professor Singh created an open space where students could discuss the social complexities of money and encouraged us to navigate its ethical components." - Jahnavi Muppaneni, Tuck MBA student

💡 "This class allowed me to gain critical distance from money and consider the ethical and structural issues associated with it. I think this is important since money and wealth-creation sits as an undercurrent of the MBA experience. Questioning the assumptions and practices associated with money, money exchange, and other forms of exchange is important since these problems inform and affect so many aspects of our personal and professional lives. I think everyone at Tuck should explore these topics in greater depth!" - Claire Gaffney, Tuck MBA student

💡 "'Money, Meaning, and Morality' is a course unlike any other here at Tuck. You learn what a philosophical approach to topics often taken for granted looks like, and your own beliefs (and beliefs you may not have known you have) are challenged on a regular basis. I recommend this class for anyone who wants to think deeply about meanings and implications of what you will face regularly as a business leader." - Sarah Kilpatrick, Tuck MBA student

❗ ➡ If you'd like to explore what a version of this course could look like in your organization whether as a intensive workshop or multipart training, drop me a message and let's discuss.

01/06/2023

Dartmouth art history students are constructing an ice building on a 95 degree day. Why? As a critical commentary on how we value disposability in our society and to emphasize that art and life are not separate things but one and the same. Cool concept and great collective project. 🧐🤩

31/05/2023

“Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.” - Alice Walker

16/05/2023

Honored to be named one of the recipients of the Mellon Foundations’s New Directions Fellowship.

I will use this year of funding to research trauma theory and trauma informed care in order to understand how trauma gets transmitted across generations and institutions.

In addition to contributing to new scholarship on religion and trauma, I am excited to become equipped in trauma informed care practices, and to offer these services to my coaching clients and their organizations.

12/05/2023

Yesterday, I underwent surgery to correct my deviated septum. 👃While I'm still in the early stages of recovery and haven't yet experienced the benefits, I know they're coming. I can’t wait to see a huge difference in my overall well-being, from sleeping better, breathing more easily, to feeling more productive at work. 🏃‍♂️ 👨‍💻

In fact, this small change will likely have a big impact on my overall quality of life in the long run. 🛠 Adjusting one, tiny, half-inch bit of cartilage will have massive returns for my body, emotions, and mental state.

➡ Talk about leverage.

This got me thinking about how small changes can also lead to huge results in our personal and professional lives. Whether it's starting a new daily habit or making minor adjustments to our work and business strategies, small changes can add up over time. 🚢

One great thing about making micro adjustments is that they're often easier to stick to. It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the idea of making sweeping changes, but sometimes it's the small modifications that make the biggest difference. By consistently working towards modest improvements, we can create a snowball effect that leads to significant growth and progress. 📈

Maybe it’s 10 minutes of journaling, breath work, stretching or meditation a day. Perhaps it’s a 15-minute daily walk outside. Maybe it’s offloading 1 or 2 minor tasks to free up time and mental space for deeper work. Perhaps it’s adjusting 1 or 2 sentences in your sales script or pitch deck. Maybe it’s changing 1 way you structure your weekly meetings with your team. Perhaps it's adding 2 sentences a day of expressing appreciation to a loved one or colleague.

And perhaps it all starts with one brief conversation with a trusted adviser, mentor, or coach to gain clarity on where to make a micro shift.

Identify areas where you can make small adjustments and improvements and start working towards them to create significant results over time. 🚀

Here’s to breathing easier in life and work. ☀

02/05/2023

Is this home office set up ergonomical? Would OSHA approve?

Let’s be real: working from home is a blessing mixed with challenges. It’s amazing to be able to be present with the one’s you love and to provide care when needed.

It’s also a balancing act that requires creativity, resourcefulness and resilience. The shape of work may not look like business as usual. But the work does go on.

Perhaps most importantly, it requires support, including communication with others in similar situations, both for the solidarity this provides and for the chance to trade notes on how best to manage things.

If you’re in a challenging work from home scenario, talk about this with a trusted colleague or friend. I’m also more than happy to be that ear if you’d like to reach out.

Keep up the good and important labor of living, caring, and working!

25/04/2023

Some reverse inspiration from the brilliant anthropologist Margaret Mead.

What’s your interpretation of this?

23/04/2023

Last week Dartmouth’s Design Initiative held the first gathering of award-winning speculative fiction sci-fi and fantasy authors who met with a small group of faculty.

We faculty shared our research and had intensive conversations and design thinking exercises with these authors. The goal was to provide inspiration for them to write short stories imagining human futures in light of our research. The plan is to disseminate research in a more accessible, engaging way through the power of story and to flesh out possible futures.

💡This has me thinking a lot about how organizations might inspire innovation:

🧐 I can imagine a program where employees (in any industry) read works of fiction, poetry or philosophy, and critique works of visual art. An expert facilitated discussion and a curated process of design based practices could then help them explore the new ideas and insights that emerge from bringing their work (say in tech, medicine, or marketing, for instance) into connection with these works.

So many productive surprises can emerge from the dissonant clash of different fields and genres. I have to believe that organizations who pursue something like this would be at the forefront of innovation, if only because these kinds of sources are so rarely engaged intentionally for insight.

🤨 I’m curious if any of you have seen or experienced focused innovation sessions like this based on employees engaging really different materials for the sake of provoking new ideas and approaches. I’d love to have a conversation with you about it.

These are pics of me presenting on a speculative future “world without debt”.

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