Writing
Notes from the turning point.
Essays for founders, entrepreneurs and executives whose lives work on paper, and who are quietly wondering whether they still fit.
Founders
Burnout, ownership, selling, and who you are afterwards.
Founders
Burnout, or have you lost interest in your business?
One needs rest. The other needs a decision. From the inside, they can feel exactly the same.
6 min read
Founders
Selling your business because of burnout? Read this first
Exhaustion is a legitimate reason to change something. It is a poor negotiator, and an unreliable judge of what that something is.
6 min read
Founders
Should I sell my business or keep it?
Your advisers will model the deal. Only you can model the life on either side of it.
6 min read
Founders
Who am I without my business? Founder identity after an exit
You did not only sell a company. You sold the thing that organised your days, your worth and your answer to “What do you do?”
6 min read
Leadership
The weight of being the one who decides.
Success & meaning
When the life you built works, and still does not answer the question.
Success & meaning
Why am I successful but unhappy?
Nothing is wrong, which is exactly what makes it so hard to talk about.
7 min read
Success & meaning
Successful but unfulfilled: why achievement stops feeling meaningful
The summit was real. The view was real. The feeling you were promised for getting there never arrived.
6 min read
Midlife & career
Direction, change and the next ten years.
Midlife & career
Feeling lost in your 40s: what is really going on
At thirty, the question was how far you could go. Somewhere in your forties, it quietly becomes a different question.
7 min read
Midlife & career
What to do when you feel lost at 40
The answer is rarely a dramatic leap. It is usually a month of paying better attention than you have in years.
6 min read
Midlife & career
Career change at 40: how to know if it is time
The question is rarely “Am I brave enough?” It is “Do I know what I would be leaving, and for what?”
6 min read
Midlife & career
Burnout or wrong career? How to tell the difference
Rest fixes depletion. It does not fix direction. The trick is knowing which one you are looking at.
6 min read
A quieter way forward
You don’t need to know exactly what the next chapter is.
You just need a place to think about it.
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