I’m taking January off (to study one word)

6,500 subscribers, one question, and a month of deep thinking.

Free: The 2026 Annual Review (PDF + AI Guide + Notebook)

The 2026 Guide: The AI Guide, the classic PDF, and 20 limited-edition notebooks.

Managing Your Wake: The Neuroscience of Team Energy

A practical guide to shifting team dynamics, one state change at a time.

A Lesson on Motivation... from 4-Year-Olds

Counter-intuitive insights from the Psychology of Motivation

In Defense of Doing Nothing

Your back-to-back schedule is a sign of weakness, not importance.

It's not about the size of your vision - it's the price.

It's not a misalignment of vision that kills founding teams. It's a misalignment of sacrifice.

Emotional Debt: The Silent Killer of Startups

The most dangerous debt in your startup isn't on the balance sheet.

On Resilience: Stop Trying to Bounce Back

True resilience isn't about being unbreakable. It's about being flexible enough to adapt to challenges and bounce forward, not just back.

How To Care

In a world of overwhelm, the solution isn't more productivity. An essay on moving from endless tasks to taking true responsibility for what—and who—truly matters.

Gabor Maté was right: 69% of top entrepreneurs are running on "bad fuel" (here's how to switch)

AI Anxiety? Here's how I recovered.

A tl;dr Guide On Surviving AI Existential Dread (No Dystopia Included)

You hired smart people. So why are you still doing their job?

Founders can’t stop cheating on their partners with their companies

Time and again, neglected spouses have described their partners as “cheating on me with the company.”

Why Ambitious People Fail: What I Wish I'd Known At 16 (+ A New Song)

Turn your relentless drive into mindful experiments before it burns you out

Why Nvidia's CEO has 60 direct reports (and why you shouldn't copy him)

Jensen Huang's unconventional management style at Nvidia exposes deeper truths about leadership evolution.

What happens after you sell for $975M? Not what you'd expect

The surprising psychological crisis hitting successful founders after exit - and the framework from Yale that's helping them find purpose again

‘You’re Too Intense’: Why That’s Exactly What Your Organization Needs to Scale

Explore how high-performing CEOs can transform their 'overwhelming intensity' into a strategic advantage for scaling

Change Isn't A Solo Sport (Even For High Performers)

Explore why your greatest changes demand collective wisdom - and the simple framework successful leaders use to harness it