Essays worth
actually applying.
A small internal deck of essays we keep coming back to. Each one gets a clean reader, plus two application tabs — how to run its idea if you're 16 years into tech, and how to run it if you're starting from zero.
How to fix your entire life in one day
Resolutions fail 80–90% of the time because people change their actions and never touch the thing underneath: who they believe they are. Seven ideas, then a one-day pen-and-paper protocol to reach dissonance, move through uncertainty, and hit discovery.
The most important skill for the next 10 years
Most skills may be irrelevant in 10–20 years. Agency won't be — the ability to set your own direction, do what it takes, and resist the distractions. Five ideas: iterating without permission, why AI doesn't threaten the high-agency, why generalists win, the five human capabilities, and a practice loop.
If you have multiple interests, don't waste the next 2–3 years
Range was sold to you as a weakness. It's the edge — if you give it a vessel that turns every interest into work you own. Seven ideas: the self-education / self-interest / self-sufficiency triad, why the intersection beats expertise, brand as environment, the idea museum, and building one system that compounds.
Personal AGI: own your context, rent the models
Garry Tan claims a ~400× output multiplier from an 80,000-page personal knowledge system. The lesson isn't a smarter model — it's that your context (markdown memory + reusable skill files) is an asset you build and keep, while the model is a commodity you rent. Five principles, plus the 2× vs 100× workflow gap.
Drop the next essay here — same 3-tab format.