by André | Sep 28, 2026 | Personal Growth, Stress
A few months ago I sat across from a client, an operations director at a mid-size company, who told me she’d started using AI to draft her reports, summarize her meetings, and triage her inbox. She said it should have given her hours back. Instead she felt like...
by André | Sep 27, 2026 | Personal Growth
The first zero-sum game most of us ever played was competing for our mother’s attention. We didn’t know we were playing it. We were too young to understand game theory, too young to understand much of anything, really. We just knew we wanted more of her,...
by André | Sep 21, 2026 | Personal Growth, Stress
For a long time, my own dysfunction did not look like a breakdown. It looked like relentless ambition. Back when I still had a day job as a software engineer, I planned every hour of every trip, finished my day job and immediately jumped into a side business, and...
by André | Sep 15, 2026 | Personal Growth, Stress
A client of mine is a therapist. She spends her working hours holding other people’s trauma, helping them untangle the patterns they can’t see in themselves. She is good at it. For the better part of a year, though, she had also been carrying a heavy load...
by André | Sep 9, 2026 | Letting Go, Personal Growth, Stress
For years I looked like the poster child for "doing it right." I graduated from a demanding engineering program, landed work in Silicon Valley, was pulling in a good six-figure income, and spent my off hours traveling the world. From the outside, nothing was...
by André | Sep 6, 2026 | Personal Growth
by André | Personal Growth If you read my first list of personal development books, you already know how I feel about this: “The man you want to become is already waiting. Books are one of the fastest ways to meet him.” Part 1 covered some of the...
