Creatine for Ballers: What Actually Works (and What Doesn’t)
If you’ve been mouth-taping before bed, grounding in your backyard like a boss, and listening to enough Huberman to start quoting magnesium dosages by heart—then yeah, creatine is probably already on your radar. It’s officially left the weight room and entered the wellness stack. These days, founders are dry-scooping it between Zoom calls, stacking it […]
Red Carpet Marketing: Why Your Pre‑Qualified Prospects Deserve a Lil’ VIP Treatment
Growth rarely comes from blasting the same message to everyone. As Brian Balfour (ex-HubSpot, Reforge) put it, “audiences expand from niche to niche”—and your tactics need to evolve with them. Last year, I stumbled across an old internal slide from my Motley Fool days. Circled in red, bold text, was a beautiful little data gem: […]
Digital Dementia: Why Many CEOs and Founders are Burnt the F*CK Out
A few months ago, I stepped down from my full-time role as CEO. It had started maybe 6-8 months earlier, and I couldn’t quite put my finger on why I was feeling so incredibly burnt out… but I knew something had to change. Looking back, I know my burnout stemmed – at least in part […]
5 Levels of Communication & Leadership
As a CEO, there were more than a few times where I felt outrageously overwhelmed by the sheer number of requests hitting me every day — from members, partners, and especially employees. But honestly, a lot of it was my fault. I had never clearly taught my (very young) team how I expected them to […]
You Will Fail. So Hire People Who’ll Build the Net.
A few months ago I sat down with Bart Houlihan—co-founder of B Lab and former president of AND1—during a live interview at a Hampton team retreat in Philly. Bart had told a story or two that were founder folklore by now, but hearing him tell them live—with no pretense or notes—just hit differently. “We should’ve […]
The Operators Guide to Leadership: Chapter 3
Pressure Doesn’t Change You. It Reveals You. Anyone can act positive, uplifting, encouraging, when things are going well. When revenue’s climbing and customers are flowing in, everyone’s high-fiving. Even the grumps can manage a smile. And honestly, if someone’s still a pain in the ass when the sun is shining? Get the eff out! But […]
The World Is Breaking Apart (According to Ray Dalio)
Ray Dalio’s writing can feel like drinking from a firehose of history, finance, and geopolitics. His tweets, stories, website, books – they feel.. arcane. Academic. Exhausting . So I thought it might be helpful to articulate – in plain freaking English – what exactly he’s saying, and give concrete, easy-to-understand examples. Below is a breakdown of the latest. What […]
Tariffapalooza, The Investor Class & The Working Class
Welcome to Tariffapalooza. In just the past few weeks, Trump has proposed sweeping new tariffs on everything from Chinese electric vehicles to European steel, floated the idea of a 60% blanket tariff on all Chinese imports, and hinted at “universal baseline tariffs” for all trading partners. It’s a dizzying barrage of economic threats, sometimes tweeted, sometimes […]
The Operators Guide to Leadership: Chapter 1
Eating Shit, Humility, & The We/I Rule I’ll be the first to say it. I don’t go around calling myself a “leader.” But – I have been doing this for over two decades—building teams, launching products, hiring great people. And after that much time in the game, you do start to develop a kind of pattern recognition. […]
The Operators Guide to Leadership: Chapter 2
Doing the Actual Work Alright, we’re flashing back again. It’s like 2005, I think. After two years as a cook and a butcher, my dad finally convinced me to use my finance degree and get into the “corporate world.” So I got a job as a low-level accountant responsible for accounts payable at a publicly […]