The Growth Equation
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How Do You Win a Marathon on a Torn Achilles?
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1 Oct 2026
On Sunday, Tigst Assefa ran the third-fastest marathon in history, winning the Berlin Marathon in 2:11:04. But that doesn’t tell half of it. With just over a mile to go, Assefa was ahead of
An Ode to Showing Up
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23 Sep 2026
Show up on good days. Show up on bad days. Show up when you want to. Show up when you don’t want to. Show up when you’re hot. Show up when you’re cold. Show up when you’re energetic. Show up
Stop Trying to Be Less Obsessed
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17 Sep 2026
When I was 16, a lifeguard rescued me at the beach. I can still see him throwing an orange flotation device my way and guiding me beneath the pier until the water was shallow enough for me to stand.
The US Open, Human Excellence, and What AI and Machines Will Never Replace
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10 Sep 2026
All this talk about AI and machines and robots, and yet what we really crave is the human spirit working at the height of its powers. Two of the best tennis players in the world just battled for over
It’s Not Just Crazy Parents: The Youth Sports Problem
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3 Sep 2026
Are youth sports broken? Almost certainly. It’s easy to rail against the craziness of youth sports parents. I’ve done so in the past, and a lot of it is deserved. But in a strange way, given our
The Mundanity of Excellence
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20 Aug 2026
“Everyone wants to be the best. But very few people are willing to do what it actually takes…You have to fall in love with the boredom. You have to fall in love with the repetition. If you can
Stop Trying to Be Balanced and Live Life in Seasons Instead
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13 Aug 2026
One of the biggest lies of modern life is that to be happy you need to be “balanced.” It’s sold to us by the self-help industrial complex—whose purveyors, it’s worth noting, are never
We’re All Performing on Stage
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5 Aug 2026
We’ve moved life from the backstage to the front. We’re all performing for someone. Some of us on social media, others in our workplace, and even AI monitors us. It’s now normal to be
What The Odyssey Can Teach Us About Navigating Life
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23 Jul 2026
This weekend, a 2,800-year-old poem had the biggest opening of Christopher Nolan’s career. Bigger than Batman, Oppenheimer, you name it. A quarter of a billion dollars, worldwide, for a story your
That You Must Suffer for Greatness is a Dangerous Lie
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16 Jul 2026
Entrepreneur and investor Will Mandis recently wrote, “‘It takes hard work to achieve anything great is a dangerous lie.’ Great output comes from finding an activity that feels as natural
Do Hard (Meaningful) Things
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9 Jul 2026
We need to do hard things. In a world that lets us shortcut almost everything—from taking performance-enhancing drugs to outsourcing our writing to AI—there’s something magical, and much
The Enhanced Self is the Enemy of a Good Life
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2 Jul 2026
The enhanced, optimized self has fully arrived. We have metrics for everything: sleep scores, heart rate variability, glucose, recovery, and readiness. We track not only our biomarkers but also our
How to Spot and Develop Talent
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25 Jun 2026
At the World Cup, the USMNT breakout star may be Alex Freeman. The 21-year-old son of former NFL star Antonio Freeman has anchored a defensive position the US team sorely needed. Growing up, everyone