How to Burn 60 Million Calories
Minimize wasted friction by seeking alignment to convert as much energy as you can into contributing something of value.
A Recruiting Pitch for a Hard Life
“Hard choices, easy life,” but who actually wants easy? The better bet is the hard hard choice: a quest that tests what you're made of.
Make Self-Help Feel Useless
Everyone has a fight that makes self-help books collect dust. You just need to know what to look for.
Monetize the Verb
You don't have to choose between passion and pragmatism. You just need to stop chasing nouns and start monetizing your verb.
Unpackage Your Passion
I thought I was a writer. I was wrong. Are you stuffing your verb into the wrong noun, too?
The $95k Question from Your 95-Year-Old Self
What would your 95-year-old self bribe you $95k to do? I built a system to answer that but failed to help anyone else stick with their own.
“I Don’t Want to Optimize My Life” Is a Trap
When you say you don’t want to optimize your life, you’re still optimizing—you’re just outsourcing it to a much worse long-term optimizer.
Your ‘Good Enough’ Life: Intention or Inertia?
My cousin said she didn't need ARC because her life was good enough, so I escalated it to the Board of Humanity.
The Principled Systems Architect
How Ross traded architecture blueprints for systems toolsets across three continents, discovering his real foundation had been portable all along.
Personal Strategic Positioning: Don’t Be Dull
Stop trying to be everything to everyone. Learn why defining your DON'Ts creates sharper positioning than listing your DOs.
“What Do You Do?” Is a Fabulous Question
Anyone who has a problem with asking or being asked "What do you do?" is contributing to a bigger problem.