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When you're the only one in charge, something unexpected happens to your leadership.

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.

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)

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

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

All You Need For Your 24/25 Reflection

Beyond Founder-Friendly: How Portfolio Size Shapes Investor Value (And Why I Changed My Mind)

Clarity, Leverage, Resilience: The Secret Sauce of High-Growth CEOs

The Mental Model Around Which I've Built Bachmann Catalyst

True North, Zoe: How Parenthood Rewires Our Core Values