Fantastic Builders and Where to Find Them: Running Catalog

A series of biographical vignettes spotlighting the "builder's mindset" in action

Welcome to my favorite new bite-sized blogging experiment to date: a series of psychologically-illustrative narrative snippets from the lives of amazing builders. Because the only way to really understand and internalize the “builder’s mindset” (or really any universal prescription for living) is to see its inexorable logic play out in the context of many particular lives and narrative arcs.

Here are all the spotlights I’ve published as of 12/27/24; please subscribe below if you’d like to get new spotlights sent straight to your inbox.

Builder spotlight #1: “Must Love Dogs” (Celine Halioua)

Builder spotlight #2: “Mr. Lazy” (David Allen)

Builder spotlight #3: The Right Kind of “Crazy” (Esther Crawford)

Builder spotlight #4: “Every day I touched fifty faces” (Estée Lauder, 1908-2004)

Builder spotlight #5: From “I ought to give up composing” to history’s greatest piano concerto in 3 short years (Sergei Rachmaninoff)

Builder spotlight #6: Money, Mormons, and A Life Well-Lived (Sahil Lavingia)

Builder spotlight #7: The courage to be “ordinary” (a conversation with Anne Briard, the insurance lawyer who is living her best life)

Builder spotlight #8: “There’s hidden treasure all over the world” (a conversation with Jesse Genet, serial founder and full-time mom)