Field notes
Older posts and one-offs that don't fit the categories above. Things noticed in the wild, earlier arcs, in-progress thinking.
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Essays
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The 7 Lies About Your Health (And Why Your Doctor Won’t Tell You the Truth)
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The Entrepreneur’s Secret: How To Stop Being an Employee in Your Own Business (and 5 Keys to Energy Mastery)
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The weird skill top performers all share (but never talk about)
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Part 1: The System Didn’t Break… It Expired
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Reflections on the Charlie Kirk Assassination: Fear, Authority, and Fundamentalism
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Is Burning Man Really Evil? What 7 Trips to the Playa Taught Me About Life, Purpose, and Attention
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Are Parasites Controlling Your Brain?
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Why Scaling Feels So Damn Hard (and What No One’s Telling You)
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Are You Financially Codependent? (Part 4 of 16)
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How I Found My Money Fear in My Body (and Mapped It for Good)(Part 3 of 16)
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Why Hitting $100K Months Left Me Empty and What I Discovered Instead (Part 2 of 16)
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The Money Mirror: What Your Finances Say About Your Inner World (Part 1 of 16)
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No Kings: Reclaim Your Power Before Someone Else Does
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Reframing Stress: You’re Not Stressed, You’re Scared, and That’s a Good Thing
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Why Saying “My Truth” Might Be Sabotaging Your Relationships (And What to Say Instead)
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From Poly to Presence: My Path to Sovereignty
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Your Relationship With Money Is Screwing With You (Or Setting You Free)
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When the Mirror Becomes a Shield: How Reflection Gets Weaponized in Coaching and Therapy
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The Room That Made Me Dangerous
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Waiting for Permission? It’s Not Coming.
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Your goals may be costing you everything
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Rewire Your Mind for Wealth: The 5 Levers of Financial Freedom
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Emails That Convert Like Crazy—Without Sacrificing Your Authentic Voice
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Feeling Trapped in Your Business? Here’s the Shift That Leads to Freedom
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Stop Working 12 Hour Days: 3 Hidden Secrets of Highly Successful Entrepreneurs
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The One-Hour Entrepreneur: Build a $1M Business Working Less
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Why Your Growing Business Is Bleeding Cash
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Mastering Productivity for Creative Entrepreneurs
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Stop Wasting Time: The Biggest Mentor Mistake You’re Making
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Most Podcasts Suck: 5 Steps to Hook Your Listeners and Stand Out
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How I Made $8M in 4 Years Online
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The Ultimate Mindset Hack to Crush Your Goals in 2025
Browse other topics
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Ownership
The owner vs. operator distinction, making yourself obsolete inside the business, what ownership actually requires.
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The AI-era rebuild
What AI is doing to operator-founders, what the rebuild actually looks like, what it means to become AI-native.
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Inner work
Nervous-system, psycho-emotional, and leadership-interior work that holds a business up.
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Operator-founder stories
What I'm seeing in the founders I'm in the room with, anonymized case studies, patterns across engagements.
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The long game
Strategy, architecture, compounding, capital. Long-horizon thinking that plays out over years, not quarters.
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