Your second choosing.
The first time around, you barely knew yourself.
the saturday essay.
A weekly essay for ambitious people living and working on their own terms.
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People deserve bad news.
Give people information while they can still do something about it.
The rule that worked too well.
It made every part of my life better, until suddenly it didn't.
Why are you taking this out on me?
The world will keep moving along, in all its lunacy, whether you watch or not.
Ask for what you want.
There's something you want. There's a person who can give it to you.
Mediocrity at scale.
There's a brand new way to fail, and it's spreading fast.
The machine is a mirror.
AI promises to free up your time, but history tells us otherwise.
Having fun is the new moat.
One advantage AI can't replicate, and how I'm rebuilding my work around it.
Stop sharpening your axe.
You don't have a skill problem. You have this big problem instead.
Manufactured certainty.
You've been brainwashed to argue about the wrong thing.
Rich and broke.
The difference between looking rich and being secure isn’t what you make.
The two-speed problem.
Criticism shows up fast. Real results show up slowly.