And what it taught me about living with agency| builders.genagorlin.com
A recording from Dr. Gena Gorlin and Jeff Matlow's live video| builders.genagorlin.com
[Adapted from this 2022 Twitter thread, which I’m reposting here by popular demand]| builders.genagorlin.com
A recording from Dr. Gena Gorlin's live video| builders.genagorlin.com
Hope that's "meta" enough for you| builders.genagorlin.com
Recording of Dr. Gena Gorlin and Evgeny Shadchnev’s Builder’s Mindset live video| builders.genagorlin.com
Tidbits from my conversation with the world's best-known and best-loved productivity expert (a.k.a. "Mr. Lazy")| builders.genagorlin.com
A little over seven years ago, Gena and I were both at a conference, and her outbound flight was cancelled.| builders.genagorlin.com
How Loyal founder and CEO Celine Halioua sustains the energy to fight for human life extension, one canine at a time| The Psychology of Ambition
Why and how Henrik Karlsson raised his ambition| builders.genagorlin.com
What founders and people with generalized anxiety disorder have in common| builders.genagorlin.com
How self-deception undermines ambition Self-trust matters in direct proportion to the ambitiousness of what you’re trying to build. Building something truly new, be it a product or service or organization or methodology or scientific insight, means betting on the soundness of your independent judgment—unchecked by anything but its inexorable effects in reality. Building a startup, for example, means staking your time, energy, and reputation on your ability to see something that others hav...| builders.genagorlin.com
Why ambitious builders need self-trust| builders.genagorlin.com
Psychologically illustrative snippets from the lives of amazing builders. Click to read The Psychology of Ambition, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.| builders.genagorlin.com
Welcome to today’s installment of “Fantastic Builders and Where to Find Them.”| builders.genagorlin.com
Why builders need to raise, not lower, their epistemic bar| builders.genagorlin.com
How Nicole Ruiz’s path from Twitter to VC to homemaker exemplifies “the life of the mind”| builders.genagorlin.com
Dear paid subscribers:| The Psychology of Ambition
The uncompromised ambition of Jesse Genet, serial founder and full-time mom| builders.genagorlin.com
A conversation with Anne Briard, the insurance lawyer who is living her best life| Building the Builders
Hello, dear readers!| builders.genagorlin.com
Update your "life vision blueprint" with me in this special end-of-year holiday session!| Building the Builders
A nugget of wisdom from my walk with Sahil Lavingia| Building the Builders
The story of Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto—and why it's dedicated to his therapist| Building the Builders
“Every day I touched 50 faces” (Estée Lauder)| Building the Builders
Why building is our safest way forward| builders.genagorlin.com
A builder builds, and a builder can build many things: a product or service, a team, a company, an essay, a song, a friendship, a home, a family, a culture, a skillset.| builders.genagorlin.com
There are two types of concerns I get when talking to founders (and other ambitious people) about money:| builders.genagorlin.com
Why flawlessness is a faulty metric for human perfection| builders.genagorlin.com
There’s a phenomenon most therapists have been confronted with, but few explicitly identify or discuss (partly because it’s hard to know what to say about it): the patient who is financially disincentivized from working.| builders.genagorlin.com
A candid interview with the founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic| builders.genagorlin.com
An exposition of the "builder's mindset" and its contraries| builders.genagorlin.com