Diocletian walked away from Rome in 305

The most powerful man in the world quit on purpose, then grew cabbages.

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Jul 19, 2026

The face he never let anyone see

Behind the most powerful face in American finance was a man hiding from cameras.

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Jul 12, 2026

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Losing on purpose

An essay about losing capital, distribution, and pretty much everything.

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He invented the America everyone wanted

A boy from the Bronx built an American aristocracy and sold it back.

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Most people call this procrastination

The difference between procrastination and mastery is smaller than most people think.

FEATURED ESSAY

The mathematics of enough

A long essay from me, three months in the making.

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UPCOMING ESSAYS

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Just ideas worth keeping.

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The bench that built Disneyland

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What Cary Grant decided in 1966

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ESSAYS

Diocletian walked away from Rome in 305

The most powerful man in the world quit on purpose, then grew cabbages.

4 min read

•

Jul 19, 2026

The face he never let anyone see

Behind the most powerful face in American finance was a man hiding from cameras.

4 min read

•

Jul 12, 2026

Losing on purpose

An essay about losing capital, distribution, and pretty much everything.

9 min read

•

Jul 5, 2026

He invented the America everyone wanted

A boy from the Bronx built an American aristocracy and sold it back.

4 min read

•

Jun 28, 2026

Most people call this procrastination

The difference between procrastination and mastery is smaller than most people think.

3 min read

•

Jun 21, 2026

The bench that built Disneyland

Walt Disney's biggest idea came from watching his daughters on a carousel.

3 min read

•

Jun 14, 2026

What Cary Grant decided in 1966

His daughter was three months old. He had four decades of work behind him.

3 min read

•

Jun 7, 2026

Why Munger read five hours a day

Charlie Munger built a fortune and refused almost everything it could buy.

4 min read

•

May 24, 2026

He ran a war from bed

Winston Churchill ran a country from three pillows, a whisky, and a stack of dispatches.

3 min read

•

May 17, 2026

TOPICS

Capital

How money behaves over time, and how the people who understand it behave around it.

Culture

Taste, restraint, and the codes that separate the serious from the fashionable.

Structure

The forces underneath markets, institutions, and the way power moves.

Diocletian walked away from Rome in 305

The face he never let anyone see

Losing on purpose

He invented the America everyone wanted

Most people call this procrastination

The mathematics of enough

Just ideas worth keeping.

The bench that built Disneyland

What Cary Grant decided in 1966

Why Munger read five hours a day

He ran a war from bed

Diocletian walked away from Rome in 305

The face he never let anyone see

Losing on purpose

He invented the America everyone wanted

Most people call this procrastination

The bench that built Disneyland

What Cary Grant decided in 1966

Why Munger read five hours a day

He ran a war from bed

Capital

Culture

Structure

Refined Journal

Topics

Essays