Craft of Living
What Last Mile School Teachers Taught Me About Designing a Life With Almost Nothing
I flew into General Santos City 3 years ago expecting a hard day. I was there to meet teachers from […]
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03 — The Journal · an editorial publication
Vol. 01 · published slowly
Essays on the systems a good life runs on.
Long-form thinking, from three desks: Systems, Money, and the Craft of Living.
Current season · Build
Cadence follows the season — more this quarter, less when life contracts. That’s the system working.
Why I Stopped Introducing Myself As a Financial Advisor
For years, the first sentence out of my mouth in any new room was some version of: “I’m a financial […]
The More I Grow, The More I Appreciate Structure
There’s a version of “freedom” that gets sold to women constantly — the idea that the goal is to need […]
“Systems outperform motivation.”
The whole philosophy, in three words
What If You Ran Your Life Like a Project?
Somewhere between getting my PMP certification and spending a decade managing rollouts for other people’s priorities, I had a realization […]