How to use systems—like diversification, budgeting, and stop-losses—to protect yourself from ego, fear, and impulsivity in investing. Part 2 of a 3-part series on the emotional challenges of investing and how to build resilience through structure.

Investing is emotionally rough because being wrong feels like failure—loud, public, and painful. This essay explores why the emotional toll of investing is so high and sets the stage for tools and mindset shifts to help you panic less next time the market crashes.

In a world obsessed with shortcuts, we’re tempted to let AI do the thinking for us. But effort isn’t just the cost—it’s the value. This essay explores why people still willing to put in the effort will build the best careers.

The skills that get us promoted aren’t the same as the skills that help us succeed once you get there. In many careers—consulting, law, finance—we have to grind through years of technical, detail-heavy work before we're allowed to do the thing we're actually great at.

Many high performers learn by tracing—copying others' actions, styles, or thought patterns as a way to move through fear and build fluency. This piece explores how tracing can evolve from a safety mechanism into a path for identity-level transformation.

Many people struggle to learn new things because they feel shut down and overwhelmed. This piece explores the emotional architecture of learning--the process of starting, getting overwhelmed, persisting, and eventually reaching an "aha" moment.

Even when it feels like we’re out of options, there’s always one card left to play—a relationship, a skill, or a small action that can move us forward. Taking that imperfect action not only keeps us in the game, it often reshuffles the deck and opens up new, unexpected possibilities.

A business with product/market fit doesn't necessarily feel good for an entrepreneur to work on. This note explores the factors internal to the entrepreneur that make a business feel worthwhile.

Good and bad businesses feel different. What exactly is the difference? This post explores the external criteria--the market and customers--while next week's post explores the factors internal to the entrepreneur.