Nobody teaches you this. You just collect the scars. I used to think I was bad at relationships. That the loneliness I felt in a room full of people was a personal failure. That if I just found the right group, the right friends, the right circle — the emptiness would
Until it's already gone. I used to think 40 was far away. Not in a naive way — I knew the math. I just didn't feel it. The days were long. The future was abstract. There was always going to be more time to fix things, start
Most people don't lack ideas. They lack the decision to act on them. You know that feeling when you have an idea — a real one, not a daydream — and instead of doing something with it, you spend three weeks thinking about whether it's good enough to
Building in Public | The Andes You know that feeling at the end of the day when you've been busy since morning — genuinely, non-stop busy — and yet when you look back, you can't quite point to what actually got done? I have that feeling more than
Life as Sales | The Andes For a year, I paid a trainer and ignored everything he said. Not consciously. I showed up every session. I took notes. I nodded at the right times. But the moment I left the gym, I went back to YouTube — searching for someone whose advice
Life as Sales | The Andes There's a phrase drilled into every Korean soldier during long marches. 안전거리 유지 — Maintain a safe distance. Keep your spacing. Don't crowd the person in front of you. Move together, but not on top of each other. The march only works
Side Hustle Lab | The Andes Let me be completely honest with you. I don't have a side hustle yet. I have the intention. I have the urgency. I have a growing list of ideas that I've written down, crossed out, reconsidered, and written down again. What
Korea Insider | The Andes Most people who haven't been to Korea know three things about it. K-pop. Samsung. And something vaguely tense happening up north. That's not wrong. It's just about 5% of the picture. I've lived here my whole life,
Good managers are made, not born. Most people become managers by accident. One day you're good at your job. The next day you're responsible for five people who are trying to be good at theirs. Nobody hands you a manual. Nobody tells you that the skills
Building in Public The deposit hits on the 25th. Every month, without fail. I check the number. It's good. Objectively, by any reasonable standard, it's good. I close the app and go back to whatever I was doing. No celebration. No relief. Just — okay. Next month,
Building in Public There's a moment most people have — usually somewhere in their late twenties or early thirties — where they look around and realize something uncomfortable. The plan didn't work. Not because the plan was bad. Not because you weren't smart enough. But because
Taking the road less taken Most people are afraid of failure. Not in theory. In practice — the kind that makes you quietly lower the bar, adjust the target, reframe what you originally wanted into something more achievable. You do this enough times and you wake up one day living a