Issue #021 — Late September dispatch: a small thing I want to keep close
A friend asked if she was still allowed to think of herself as a writer. The small reframing I have been carrying around since.
Issue #020 — On the loneliness of running your own thing
Not about being alone. About which conversations are available. The one peer most founders never find, and how to build that relationship.
Issue #019 — The quiet economics of a small life
A life sized to fit what actually matters, with the costs honestly accounted for, and the slack deployed on purpose.
Issue #018 — A founder I keep thinking about
Twelve people, profitable since year three, no investors, four-day weeks. The boring company is, often, the strong one.
Issue #017 — Six months of saying no
The small private log I started in January. The patterns it surfaced, and why the receipts matter more than the framework.
Issue #016 — On charging your worth without the bravado
Why the phrase quietly assumes a thing it should not. The reframe that helped, and the silence that is the whole skill.
Issue #015 — Spring rituals for the burnt-out builder
The unromantic kit that worked. Less in the morning, one real piece of work before noon, one protected evening.
Issue #014 — A second letter this month, because this one could not wait
A second letter. The over-delivery instinct after a price that scared me, and the discipline of actually receiving what you charged.
Issue #013 — What I learned launching a thing nobody asked for
Validation is not a stage you complete before building. It happens through, after, around. The folder of unbuilt ideas is not protecting you.
Issue #012 — The forty-dollar hour and other numbers I had to learn
Pricing is not a finance problem. It is a nervous-system problem. The number you can charge is the number you can say without flinching.
Issue #011 — On beginning again, gently
January as continuation, not beginning. Why my best years started with a sentence in early February, not a list of resolutions.
Issue #010 — A year-end letter on what I am carrying forward
Not a list of accomplishments. The practices that earned their keep, and a few I am quietly retiring.