All memos tagged #essay

Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead is a June 2024 essay series by Leopold Aschenbrenner arguing that AGI by 2027 is plausible and that superintelligence will arrive before the decade ends. The...

A man sat across from me last week and named something the room had been circling for an hour: he owes 120 thousand dollars and his business is making 120 thousand dollars a month and he still cannot...

A client asked me what to do when his focus disappears. He'd been talking about a creative project that lit him up. He could feel the pull of it. But he was nervous. What if the energy doesn't last?...

A man I was coaching had been talking about a project he wanted to make. It came up casually, then it came up urgently. He could feel the pull. He was excited. He also wasn't starting. I asked him...

A senior executive sat across from me. Smart, accomplished, recently between roles. He told me he'd been applying to jobs one level below the one he actually wanted. Senior VP roles when he was after...

A man told me last week that he can't get traction on a project he genuinely cares about. We worked it through. What he landed on stopped him cold. The pressure he was feeling wasn't coming from the...

A finance executive sat across from me last week. He's between roles. Sharp, accomplished, the kind of person whose competence is obvious in the first thirty seconds of conversation. He's been at the...

A finance executive in his late 30s sat across from me last week. He's between roles. Laid off from a job he loved, processing the grief of it, navigating the awkward in-between of "what's next." A...

A man sat across from me last week and listed everything good in his life. Top 5% household income. A marriage he genuinely loves. A child who is thriving. A career with more flexibility than most...