Jul
8
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.
2 min read
Jun
10
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.
1 min read
May
13
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.
2 min read
Apr
8
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.
2 min read
Mar
25
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.
1 min read
Mar
11
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.
2 min read
Feb
11
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.
2 min read
Jan
14
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.
1 min read
Dec
10
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.
2 min read
Nov
12
Issue #009 — What gratitude actually rewires
Not happiness. Resolution of attention. Why the practice is small and specific, not a journal you abandon by week three.
1 min read
Oct
8
Issue #008 — On rest as resistance
Not the bath-bomb kind. The kind that does not photograph well. A small political act in an economy built on never stopping.
1 min read
Sep
10
Issue #007 — Money, fear, and the quiet courage of looking
The hard part of money is not the information. It is opening the banking app on the Tuesday you suspect the number is bad.
2 min read