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(Previously titled: If You Don’t Kill This Voice, It WILL Kill Your Calling and Fire) The most dangerous voice in your head isn’t wrong about your work. It’s wrong about you — and you keep believing it. There’s a voice in your head. You know which one. It doesn’t shout. It waits until you’re tired, … Read more
(Previously called “Done is a decision”) Perfect is the most respectable way to quit. Why I ship before it’s ready — on purpose. I know the feeling of waiting for perfect, because I lived it. For years I sat on my crypto waiting for the right time to sell — a better price, a cleaner … Read more
(Previously called “Centipede’s Dilemma) Thinking is my edge. So I had to learn exactly when to stop. There’s an old parable about a centipede who walks perfectly well — until a frog asks her which leg she moves first. She stops to think about it, and never walks again. She analyses herself into paralysis. Most … Read more
Why I moved everything out of an asset I couldn’t govern — and into one I could. A few years ago I sold all my crypto at what most people would call exactly the wrong time. People who knew told me I was crazy. Some of them were right about the price. None of them … Read more
I wanted to blame something external. A child abuse and in the end, the kid (Megan) passed away…and the details that came up in the papers…the kind that lodges in you and won’t leave. I’m not going to retell it. The details aren’t the point, and turning a real person’s worst moment into content is … Read more
Let me get the cleanest part out of the way first: God doesn’t need your money. He never did. He owns everything already — “For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.” (Psalm 50:10). He is not short. He is not waiting on your transfer to clear. So … Read more
I was so dehydrated that the nurses couldn’t draw my blood. It had gone too thick. That’s not a metaphor. That’s where four days of gastroenteritis put me — think food poisoning, but feral. High fever, relentless vomiting and diarrhoea at the same time, full-body weakness, the room tilting. The first day I couldn’t keep … Read more
It’s been eleven years since my dad passed away. Honestly, it still hits me. Some years more than others. Sometimes it doesn’t even feel like grief — it feels like he just went away on a long holiday and I’ll see him again soon. (No, I’m not suicidal, ha. It’s just that the mind does … Read more
Why I walked away from a position I’d held since 2016, and what the decision actually looked like from the inside. I’d been in crypto since 2016. I checked my portfolio a hundred times a day — the charts, the green candles, the red ones, the narratives, the what-ifs, the price-hike-right-after-I-sold and the dip-right-after-I-bought. It … Read more
Your parents were first-time humans too — that’s the grace. What you do with the hand they dealt you is on you now — that’s the responsibility. When we were kids, our parents seem like gods to us. They know everything, they have every answer, they never fail. Then you grow up, and somewhere along … Read more