In the ancient world, people burdened by hard questions traveled to Delphi to consult the oracle of Apollo.
They didn’t receive a forty-page consultant’s report, with a GANTT chart and impenetrable acronyms. They received a few potent (and often perplexing) words, and the harder work of living up to them.
That’s the idea here.
Each morning, The Daily Oracle delivers one short pronouncement on fundraising. Some mornings it will be practical instruction. Other mornings you may find a paradox, an aphorism, or a question that will not leave you alone: words meant less to deliver definitive answers than to raise questions worth sitting with.
The oracle at Delphi worked the same way.
Why daily? Because fundraising isn’t so much a knowledge problem. It’s a belief problem, and beliefs change the way water changes stone: a little every day.
Read it with your coffee. Subscribe below. And when a pronouncement strikes you as true, send it to your board chair.
Or, if you are the board chair, take action. Today.
