Journal.
Field notes from the build. Writing on stress, the nervous system, and what high-performers are missing.
I Hired Them. Then I Had to Let Them Go.
The decision was rational. My nervous system didn't agree. What I learned about my own stress on the days I gave the news.
It's Not AI Anxiety. It's Grief You Can't Explain Yet.
Layoffs end. AI replacement doesn't. The physiology of this slow career loss looks different from any career stress we've measured before.
The Layoff Already Happened. Just Not the Email Part.
Your body responds to a possible layoff the same way it responds to an actual one. The dread is doing work nobody is counting.
What Is HRV? The Metric Everyone Tracks and Nobody Uses
HRV is the closest thing your body has to a check engine light. Most people just stare at it.
Decision Fatigue Is Physiological. Here's the Data.
Your cognitive decline after hours of decisions isn't mental weakness—it's cortisol and glucose depletion. The data on when leaders lose their edge is clear.
The Opt-In Problem: Why Meditation Fails High-Performers (And What Does Work)
Meditation requires you to consciously choose it at the exact moment stress makes choice the hardest. That is not a design flaw. It is a category failure.
What Your Nervous System Is Doing During Back-to-Back Calls
Back-to-back meetings don't just exhaust you. They trap your autonomic nervous system in a sympathetic feedback loop it cannot exit without mechanical help.
Apple Watch vs. Whoop vs. Oura for Stress: What They All Get Wrong
Three different form factors. Billions of data points. One fundamental limitation. They all track stress perfectly, but none of them actually intervene.