I used to wear my exhaustion like a badge of honor. Late nights at the office, emails sent at 2 AM, weekends spent cranking out work while my phone buzzed with texts from friends I kept blowing off. I told myself this was what it took. This was the price of building something meaningful. My ... Read more Read more ›
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Here’s a common misconception that gets repeated everywhere: if you want to accomplish more, you need to work harder. More hours. More hustle. More grind. But what if I told you that some of the most productive people I know actually work less than their burnt-out peers? When I was running my first startup in ... Read more Read more ›
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I’ll admit something that still makes me wince a bit. When I was fresh into corporate in my twenties, I took every piece of career advice at face value. My dad had worked in a factory for decades, been active in the union, and I was the first in my family to go to university. ... Read more Read more ›
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I still remember the text from my college buddy Mark: “Dude, this is the third time you’ve bailed. Let me know when you actually have time for your friends.” That stung. But he was right. During my first startup years, I’d become the king of saying yes. Yes to every networking event. Yes to every ... Read more Read more ›
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There’s a quiet truth that most people don’t realize until they reach midlife: Some of the most successful, fulfilled, and impactful people didn’t “peak” in their 20s, 30s, or even 40s — they peaked after 50. And not because they suddenly became lucky, discovered a hidden talent, or reinvented themselves out of desperation. No — ... Read more Read more ›
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I picked up Ray Dalio’s “Principles” a few years back, expecting another business book full of obvious advice dressed up as revelation. What I got instead was something that made me rethink how I approached nearly everything. Dalio built Bridgewater Associates into one of the world’s largest hedge funds, but the book wasn’t really about ... Read more Read more ›
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Watching my father work in sales management for thirty years taught me something uncomfortable early on. He did everything “right” by middle-class standards. Showed up on time. Hit his numbers. Played politics when necessary. Yet when promotion time came around, he got passed over repeatedly while others moved ahead. That wasn’t bad luck. It was ... Read more Read more ›
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Let me start with a confession: for most of my twenties and early thirties, I genuinely thought something was wrong with me. I wasn’t just a little unmotivated—I was chronically, impressively, almost artistically lazy. I’d hit snooze so many times the alarm felt like background music. I’d sit at my laptop for hours without typing ... Read more Read more ›
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I used to think burning out was just part of the game. During my second startup, I watched myself slowly fall apart. I stopped working out, gained weight, slept maybe four hours a night. I told myself this was what it took to build something meaningful. That “hustle culture” sleep deprivation was a badge of ... Read more Read more ›
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We’re told to disrupt everything. Move fast and break things. Pivot before the ink dries on your business cards. But here’s what I think nobody wants to admit: some of the business principles our parents’ generation swore by are actually more relevant now than ever. Not all of them, sure. But many that worked then? ... Read more Read more ›
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We’re constantly told to hustle harder, grind longer, and outwork everyone else. But then Bill Gates drops this line: ““I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” Wait, what? It sounds counterintuitive. Maybe even wrong. But after running two startups and ... Read more Read more ›
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You know that feeling on Sunday evening when your stomach starts to tighten? The one where you’re already mentally preparing for Monday morning before the weekend has even ended? Or maybe you’re the person who opens their calendar every few weeks to count the days until your next vacation, like it’s a life raft you’re ... Read more Read more ›
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Success often looks mysterious from the outside.We assume people achieve great things because they’re unusually talented, exceptionally disciplined, or naturally confident. Some people imagine success comes from luck. Others think it’s the result of opportunity or privilege. But after interviewing 40 genuinely successful people—entrepreneurs, creatives, executives, athletes, and even a few retirees who built fulfilling ... Read more Read more ›
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I spent eighteen months working eighty-hour weeks on a startup that failed spectacularly. I was the first one in, the last one out. I sacrificed weekends, relationships, sleep. I wore my exhaustion like a badge of honor. And when it all came crashing down, burning through investor money and leaving me with nothing but debt ... Read more Read more ›
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About three years ago, I found myself sitting at my desk at eleven in the morning, staring at a blank screen and fighting to keep my eyes open. I’d been awake since seven, had already downed two cups of coffee, and still felt like I was moving through wet cement. This was the reality of ... Read more Read more ›
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I had a friend back when I was running my consultancy who drove a car older than most of my client relationships. Dressed like he shopped wherever was closest to his flat. Lived in a neighborhood that nobody would call aspirational. Then one day over coffee, he mentioned he’d just bought his third rental property. ... Read more Read more ›
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“Upper class” sounds like something out of a period drama… until you realize people quietly use it every day to compare themselves: But what does that actually mean in numbers? If you strip away the ego, the envy, and the Instagram nonsense, you get a simple question: How much money does a household in America ... Read more Read more ›
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The tech elite says it’s defending Western values. Then it tells you exactly what those values are. I owned Palantir stock. Past tense. This isn’t a confession designed to make me look virtuous. I bought it for the reason most people buy growth stocks: it was going up. The company had a $10 billion military ... Read more Read more ›
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One of the funny things about wealth is that the people who genuinely have it rarely feel the need to show it. After running a business for years, meeting founders, investors, families with old money, and self-made entrepreneurs, I’ve noticed something interesting: the wealthiest people I know never look like what movies or Instagram say ... Read more Read more ›
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If you spend enough time around genuinely successful people—not the loud ones on social media, but the ones who quietly build real, lasting success—you start to notice a pattern: They all have an unusual relationship with self-control. Not the rigid, punishing version we associate with perfectionism. I’m talking about the grounded, calm kind of self-control—the ... Read more Read more ›
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