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2026  47

July  8

The Supreme Wish That Vetoes All Your Goals

July 19, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Success Is a Guest of Honor Who Won't Crash an Unprepared House

July 17, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Your Results Are a Garment You Cut Yourself

July 14, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Watch the Feeling, Not the Thought

July 12, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

The Event Never Reaches You — Only Your Reaction Does

July 10, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Aim Beats Ammunition: The Subconscious Cannon

July 7, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Your Moods Are the Weather Vane, Not Your Plans

July 5, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

How to Get Anything You Want: Elsie Lincoln Benedict on the Moods That Build Your Life

July 3, 2026 · 6 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

June  13

Stop Being a Firefighter. Become an Architect

June 30, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Don't Launch. Sherpa Your First Advocates Instead

June 28, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

The 5-5-5 Plan: Build an Army of Advocates by Hand

June 26, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

You Have Eight Seconds to Make Them Say Wow

June 23, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

The Friction Equation: Satisfaction Is Value Over Effort

June 21, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Growth Without Retention Is Just Delayed Churn

June 19, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

The Atomic ICP: Stop Trying to Boil the Ocean

June 16, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Customer Discovery Is the Art of Shutting Up

June 14, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Outcomes Are Granted, Not Declared

June 12, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Everything Is Your Fault (And Why That Frees You)

June 9, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Clock Speed: The Fastest Learner Wins

June 7, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

If You Build It, Nobody Is Coming

June 5, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Earn the Right: A First-Time Founder's Guide to Starting a Startup

June 3, 2026 · 6 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

May  13

Rehearse It Before You Run It

May 31, 2026 · 1 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Me-Go to We-Go

May 29, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Stop Confusing Tasks With Actions

May 27, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Your Brain Is a Bad Time Traveler

May 24, 2026 · 1 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

You Are Working at a Fraction of What You've Got

May 22, 2026 · 1 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

You Are Mostly Running on Tape

May 19, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

When Did You Stop Playing?

May 17, 2026 · 1 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Don't Waste the Bad Mood

May 15, 2026 · 1 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

The Urge to Push Harder Is a Smoke Alarm

May 12, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Every Action Is a Vote

May 10, 2026 · 1 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Grinder, Striver, Aligner, Exponential

May 8, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Your Effort Is Leaving as Heat

May 5, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

The Exponential Individual Playbook: A Field Guide to Aligned Effort

May 3, 2026 · 5 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

January  13

Importance over urgency: the calendar audit

January 31, 2026 · 1 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Your values are a decision engine

January 30, 2026 · 1 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Identity is the ceiling

January 27, 2026 · 1 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Learned helplessness is the quiet killer

January 25, 2026 · 1 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

The words your team uses about failure

January 23, 2026 · 1 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

The one question that changes every standup

January 20, 2026 · 1 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

The 1% rule for compounding teams

January 18, 2026 · 1 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Why your rollout stalls

January 16, 2026 · 1 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

How to actually change someone's mind

January 13, 2026 · 1 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Raise your standards (goals aren't enough)

January 11, 2026 · 1 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

What a real decision actually is

January 9, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

The Niagara Syndrome — Why Smart Teams Drift Into Crisis

January 6, 2026 · 2 min · Steven A. Rodríguez

Awaken the Giant Within — Summary, Key Lessons, and How to Use Them

January 4, 2026 · 5 min · Steven A. Rodríguez