Happy 2nd anniversary, Building the Builders!

Some updates and announcements in honor of turning 2

Two years into launching this Substack, I’m feeling proud of what we’ve built together so far:

• a core collection of essays that ambitious founders and creators consistently report finding helpful—especially these:

  • A different and better way to live

  • Raising humanity’s psychological ceiling

  • Vision or delusion? Why ambitious founders need self-trust (Part 1, Part 2)

  • Your flaws matter less than you think

  • “Intellectual humility” is a copout

  • Death is the default

  • Worrying on schedule: What founders and people with generalized anxiety disorder have in common

• a steadily growing readership of 2690 subscribers as of today

• an intellectual home base for the ideas, methods, and examples I assimilate across my many disparate professional endeavors, including:

  • coaching of individual founders

  • teaching and training of graduate student therapists

  • collaborating on various builder-centric side projects (like the Founder’s Mindset podcast and the Maximize Your Mind with ChatGPT course)

  • talking to amazing builders on th…