A plumber hit a pipe four times and charged $200. Everyone thinks he overcharged. He didn't. And the invoice he wrote explains why you've been undercharging your whole career. There's an old story I keep coming back to. A man calls a plumber to fix a pipe. The plumber...

Somebody asked which matters more, wisdom or adaptability. Watch who answers which way. It tells you almost everything about how long they've been in the game. Somebody posted a question this week that's been rattling around my head since. What matters more: wisdom,...

I use AI to help me write. A guy in my comments called me a robot for it. He was wrong about me, and dead right about something bigger. Right there in a Facebook comment, under one of my posts: "Interesting, but every AI post on this site reads identically these...

Rock bottom doesn’t bounce you. It drags you. Holding is allowed. Hiding is not. Here’s the honest checkup that tells you whether to hold, sell, or prune.

It started in January with a sore calf. Five months later, a doctor found blood clots in my lungs. Here’s what almost dying taught me about the quiet problems we keep ignoring.

The Leaving Problem · Part 2 of 2. The exit tax is the wrong tool. Here's the one lever you actually control... and the rule I hold myself to every time I coach. In Part 1, I told you about one of my clients walking his capital, his team, and his projects across the...

The Leaving Problem · Part 1 of 2. One of my clients moved his whole operation south. The opportunity wasn't the problem. That should stop all of us cold. One of my clients recently moved his entire investing operation to the United States. Capital. Plans. Ambition....