Self-awareness is usually imagined as an inward act. Reflect. Journal. Sit with your feelings. Examine your motives. The implicit model is that the truth about you is already in you, and awareness is just the work of looking hard enough to find it.

Reflection is essential, but reflection has to hav...

Naval Ravikant said the quiet part out loud. The research says he's right — and that walking away doesn't fix it.

A founder tells you they tried therapy. Sat with it for the better part of a year. And the honest summary, delivered with the same flat precision they'd bring to a failed product li...

Starting a company usually begins in passion, vision, and the desire to build something that matters. But many founders discover, often abruptly, that founding a company and running it as CEO are not the same job with more responsibility attached. They are fundamentally different roles, calling f...

Why the Classical Analytic Frame Struggles to Hold the Founder's Mind

The neutral, hierarchical stance was built for a different kind of patient — and the field's own relational turn points to what actually works.

The founder is not a typical patient.

They tend to be high-agency, creative, int...

The disposition that generates breakthroughs is real, temperamental, and genuinely valuable. It also has a cost — to the person and the people around them. The answer isn't to fix it or worship it. It's to hold it well.

There's a particular kind of person most organizations have a complicated rel...