Articles

A growing collection. Foundations first: the things worth understanding before anything else.

• Foundations

  What social anxiety actually is

  It isn't shyness and it isn't a character flaw. A plain look at the pattern: what it is, what keeps it running, and why that matters.

• Foundations

  Confidence vs. self-esteem: why the difference matters

  You can be sure of your work and still feel worthless around people. Sorting these two out changes what you actually work on.

• Foundations

  Why external validation fails

  Compliments work for about an hour. Then you need the next one. Here's why approval keeps the anxiety in business.