Emotions & Finance

Culture is a leading indicator, financials are a lagging one. This 7-part series breaks down how toxic leadership behaviors—like bullying, dishonesty, and micromanagement—dysregulate teams and quietly erode company performance.

Bad days are inevitable—even for the most careful planner. This essay explores why mistakes happen, how to reduce their damage, and how to build the emotional and practical reserves to survive them. Planning well means preparing for your worst day of the year.

Attention is your scarcest resource. Like capital in a portfolio, it needs to be allocated deliberately. This essay explores how we waste attention, how to budget it better, and how to invest it in the goals that matter most.

Many chase the appearance of wealth or knowledge instead of the real thing. This essay explores why signaling matters, why it’s incomplete without substance, and challenges readers to show their real value without fear of looking fake.

The final piece in a 3-part series on the emotions of investing. This post explores what happens when we consistently apply systems: the fear fades, execution becomes automatic, and we evolve into calm, disciplined investors. Mastery is boring—and it works.

How to use systems—like diversification, budgeting, and stop-losses—to protect yourself from ego, fear, and impulsivity in investing. Part 2 of a 3-part series on the emotional challenges of investing and how to build resilience through structure.

Investing is emotionally rough because being wrong feels like failure—loud, public, and painful. This essay explores why the emotional toll of investing is so high and sets the stage for tools and mindset shifts to help you panic less next time the market crashes.

In a world obsessed with shortcuts, we’re tempted to let AI do the thinking for us. But effort isn’t just the cost—it’s the value. This essay explores why people still willing to put in the effort will build the best careers.

The skills that get us promoted aren’t the same as the skills that help us succeed once you get there. In many careers—consulting, law, finance—we have to grind through years of technical, detail-heavy work before we're allowed to do the thing we're actually great at.

Many high performers learn by tracing—copying others' actions, styles, or thought patterns as a way to move through fear and build fluency. This piece explores how tracing can evolve from a safety mechanism into a path for identity-level transformation.