Identity & Performance
Audition Your Investors
The conversation around funding usually focuses on what investors can do for you. Less attention goes to what you lose when you take money from the wrong person. Here’s a different frame.
Identity & Performance
Is Success Holding You Back?
High-functioning people are rarely stuck because they lack capability. They’re stuck because the same strategies that drove success are now blocking something more fundamental. Here’s what that looks like, and why it happens.
Identity & Performance
How to set Unrealistic Goals
SMART goals are useful. They’re also a framework built for average outcomes. This is about what happens when you hold the framework loosely enough to let something bigger through.
Identity & Performance
Is that a Hell Yes or a Hell No?
Most people know when something feels off. The harder question is whether they trust that signal enough to act on it. This piece is about learning to tell the difference.
Identity & Performance
On Self Doubt
The internal voice that questions whether you’re capable enough, prepared enough, or worthy enough tends to show up most reliably when the stakes are real. That’s not a coincidence. Here’s what self-doubt is actually signaling, and why silencing it isn’t the goal.
Identity & Performance
Do you care about what others think of you?
he question isn’t whether other people’s opinions matter — of course they do to some degree. The more useful question is whether you’ve quietly handed the steering wheel to an audience that isn’t living your life. Here’s where that line tends to fall.
Identity & Performance
Let fear be your guide
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” -Nelson Mandela What is fear anyways? Well, the all-knowing Read more
Identity & Performance
The Genius of Ignorance
We spend most of our education associating learning with grades, judgment, and worth. But curiosity without consequence — the kind children have before the system gets hold of them — is where the most interesting thinking actually happens. Here’s what a gap year and a broken education model have to do with getting that back.
Clinical Insight
It’s not just you.
We’ve gotten so practiced at performing “fine” that the actual answer to “how are you?” has become almost inaccessible. This piece is about what lives underneath the standard script — the private experiences most people assume are uniquely theirs, and aren’t.
Cultural Identity
Are you tired of listening to other people telling you how to live YOUR life?
Other people’s opinions don’t just influence us from the outside — they get internalized and start sounding like our own thoughts. Recognizing whose voice is actually running the show, and learning to distinguish it from your own, is one of the more quietly radical things a person can do.