Writing
Essays and reflections on building companies, conscious leadership, and what it means to grow.
Starting Fresh
On rebuilding the personal site, getting back to writing, and why putting your name on something still matters.
Productivity Tips: How to Run One or Multiple Companies Without Going Crazy
Practical frameworks and personal hacks for limiting decision fatigue, from implementing EOS and hiring strong team leads to wearing only black and rating tasks by dollar value.
Book Review: The Little Book of Stoicism
A review of Jonas Salzgeber's practical guide to Stoic philosophy, covering the Stoic Happiness Triangle and 55 daily practices for resilience, confidence, and calmness.
Do You Have the Courage to Follow Your Calling?
A chance encounter with a musician on a Bali beach sparks a reflection on the tension between following your passion and staying in your comfort zone.
How to Launch New Product Features Without Pissing Off Your Team and Customers
A step-by-step playbook for communicating product updates across your organization -- from support and sales enablement to customer-facing announcements -- learned the hard way at MaxCDN.
7 Mistakes (Almost) Every First-Time Entrepreneur Will Make
From chasing money to fearing failure, here are seven common traps that catch new business owners -- and how to avoid them based on hard-won experience building MaxCDN.
For Entrepreneurs with a Family: The Definitive Guide to Work-Life Balance
A comprehensive framework for work-life integration that applies business principles -- vision, boundaries, tools, and systems -- to running a happier family life alongside your company.
For Ambitious Entrepreneurs: 5 Effective Leadership Qualities
Five leadership qualities that separate inspiring leaders from those who lead through fear — from emotional intelligence to compelling vision and aggressive action-taking.
Good Leadership Traits You Should Teach Your Child
Three practical ways to instill leadership traits in your children — from team-building through activities to storytelling that models grit and perseverance.
3 Characteristics of Effective Communication with Your Spouse
How entrepreneurs can strengthen their marriage through empathy, honesty, and active listening — with a practical framework for structured conversations with your partner.
Why Marriages Fail: 4 Tragic Reasons That Entrepreneurs Need To Be Aware Of
Four common reasons entrepreneurial marriages fall apart — from diverging priorities and emotional distance to financial distress — and practical strategies to prevent each one.
Managing Happiness: Course Summary
A complete overview of the Managing Happiness course — a six-part system for applying business principles to your relationship to eliminate struggles and build a thriving marriage.
The Coaching Habit: Just Ask the Right Questions
A summary of Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit and its seven essential questions that will transform how you lead, coach, and communicate with your team.
The Definitive Guide to Planning Your Life
A comprehensive, actionable guide to building a life plan -- from discovering your purpose with SWOT analysis and SMARTR goals to creating five-year, monthly, and daily plans that drive real progress.
How to Promote Your eCommerce Site Without Going Broke
A practical playbook for bootstrapped eCommerce founders to get featured on blogs and websites without spending a fortune on advertising, using free outreach tactics and affordable tools.
The Lean Startup: Done is Better than Perfect
A review of Eric Ries's The Lean Startup and why the Minimum Viable Product is the most critical concept for any founder -- how shipping fast validates ideas, saves resources, and generates immediate ROI.
A Simple Cold Email That Makes Networking Easy
A proven cold email formula that gets responses from top professionals -- lead with genuine praise, establish credibility fast, make a specific ask, and offer to pay for their time.
How to Read Hard Books
Five practical strategies for getting through dense, challenging non-fiction books -- from reading along with the audiobook to ditching your highlighter and knowing when to quit.
How to Use Pain to Become a Stronger Person
Pain is inevitable, but how it shapes you is a choice. Three keys -- ownership, healing, and vulnerability -- determine whether hardship destroys you or refines you into someone stronger.