Essays
Notes on the future of work, freedom, mindset, and the life you actually chose.
New pieces added regularly.
You are hiring for jobs that don't exist.
The job description became a prediction, not a fact. Why hiring is now a strategy question, and why People just became the most important function in the company.
The most expensive life you will ever live is someone else's.
I published one honest sentence and thought I had torched thirty years of relationships. On the fear of being yourself.
We were taught that play is the opposite of learning. It is the mechanism.
I learned to write code at fifty-two, by playing. On why expertise makes you afraid to be a beginner.
Scarcity is just fear with a good vocabulary.
I gave away the exact method people pay me for. It brought me more clients, not fewer.
Freedom is not what you can afford. It is what you can refuse.
I turned down €15,000 last month. A year ago I would have said yes before the call ended.
You're fifty? You have no idea how lucky you are.
The world treats fifty as a managed decline toward the golf course. It has the verdict exactly backwards.