small groups
Non-Obvious Keys to Building a Great Group (or Team)
Great groups are formed, not made. There is no recipe but there are commonalities on what makes ordinary people exceptional, together.
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race execution
Training for a Moment You Can't Predict
Michael Phelps won gold in Beijing with goggles full of water. His coach had made him practice swimming blind for years, counting strokes to the wall, so that when the moment arrived, the response was already built. You can't predict when the attack will happen. But you can train how you respond.
coaching
The Coaching Session I Didn't Expect
Have you ever been punched in the stomach by a question? This past week, I sat in a circle with four people asking me questions. I was describing a challenge coming up in six months. Framing it as a future problem. Someone asked: "Why are you putting it at six months? What can you do right now?"
spring
The Early Season Is Everything
I'm eight weeks into intervals that won't pay off until July. Spring cleaning is for rookies, we are spring building people!
racing
The Right Move at the Wrong Time
That's the first timing lesson from racing: knowing when to use pressure as a tool rather than react to it. Pogačar didn't just beat Pidcock on fitness. He read the moment and chose differently than he had before.
time
Why Time is Speeding Up (And What to Do About It)
The first time my world shrank in a race, I thought something was wrong. Couldn't do math. Couldn't think past the next 20 yards. Turned out it wasn't a warning sign. It was a superpower.
consistency
Don't Be a Hero (Seriously)
We glorify the founder grinding 80-hour weeks. The athlete who trains through pain. Then we copy the highlights without understanding the system behind them.
games
The Right Game
Your life begins the day you realize that the only thing standing between where you are now, and where you want to be, is a commitment to doing what's required to change. It all starts with a simple step.
consistency
Boring Enough to Win
The first time you do something, it's so hard. So complicated. The second time, it's marginally better. By the tenth time, you've stopped thinking about it. By the hundredth, it runs itself.
10x
If You're Working Hard, You're Hardly Working
The people who break out don’t do everything. They happened to do one thing that changed everything.
We Live in a Lottery-Based Mental Economy
Your brain is buying lottery tickets all day long. Every scroll. Every notification. Every viral story about the 19-year-old dropout who built a billion-dollar company. You're being rewired to accept outliers as realistic opportunities. Why jump your bike off your house when you can do
Burned out on building community? Read this.
Most communities don’t fail because people stop caring. They fail because we were sold the wrong playbook. We were told that if we just found the right platform, nailed the perfect strategy, or added one more feature… community would magically appear. It won’t. Over the last 20 years,