You’re Standing in Front of an Open Door: The Mega Backdoor Roth 2026
The mega backdoor Roth exists because the tax code has a gap in it, and the gap is large enough to drive a significant amount of money through. Most high…
You’ve Already Done the Hard Part. You’re Just Selling It Wrong.
I spent some time last year looking at the LinkedIn profiles of people who’d left VP and Director roles at companies like Salesforce, HubSpot, and various Series B startups —…
The Call That Sounds Like Your Mother
A researcher at a cybersecurity firm in London ran an experiment last year that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. She took three seconds of audio from her…
The Solopreneur Dream Was Real. The Ceiling Was the Problem.
About two years ago I hit a wall that I suspect a lot of people running one-person operations recognize immediately when they hear it described. Revenue was growing. The work…
The Chatbot Was Never the Point
I’ll be honest — I spent most of 2023 genuinely impressed by ChatGPT. The ability to ask a question and get a coherent, researched answer in seconds felt like a…
The $100K Illusion: What Middle Class Actually Costs in 2026
A friend of mine moved from Hyderabad to San Francisco for a job paying $115,000 a year. He called me three months in, genuinely confused. “I’m making more money than…
You’re Spending Half Your Workday on Work That Isn’t Work
I started tracking how I actually spent my time about eight months ago. Not what I thought I was doing — what I was actually doing. I used a simple…
The Market Crashed. You Didn’t Sell. That’s the Whole Point.
Most personal finance arguments about dollar-cost averaging miss the point so completely it’s almost impressive. They debate whether DCA beats lump sum investing. They run backtests. They build tables. They…
