I Run a Company, a Household, and an AI Fleet: An Entrepreneur Mother's Operating System
How I use entrepreneur mom AI to run a company and a household on a 3.5-day workweek, with a fleet of agents carrying recurring work.
A reason, a season, or a lifetime
The old saying is a sorting question. Every relationship the clearing left standing is serving one of the three.
The 90-Second Body Scan Before a High-Stakes Decision
A 90-second body scan before a decision, the London trading-floor research behind it, and the somatic marker hypothesis that explains why it works.
Fractional Executive Loneliness: The Cost Nobody Budgets For
Fractional executive loneliness is real and structural. What coaching 400 CTOs taught me about the fix that holds.
Best Frameworks for Founders Who Want Their Time Back
The best frameworks for founders, ranked by how fast the hours come back. Ten frameworks, each judged by the hours you can point at.
Honoring yourself has a pace
You did the clearing. The people around you did not get the memo. What the first weeks with a new boundary ask of you.
The Sovereignty Test: Where Did the Hours AI Freed Go?
A simple test for technology and human sovereignty: did the hours AI freed go into more work, or back into your life?
The Companies That Fired Every Manager, and What They Rebuilt First
Morning Star, Gore, Valve, Haier, and Buurtzorg run at real scale with no managers. Zappos and GitHub tried and reversed. The difference was what each built to replace the job it deleted.
What Held (and What Broke) When 61 Companies Tried a 4-Day Week
Sixty-one UK companies, Iceland's national trials, Microsoft Japan, and a 141-company global study all tested the 4-day week. Most kept it. Here is what the data actually shows, including who reverted and why.
Only what honors me remains
The difference between loving yourself and honoring yourself.
Our Top Salesperson Built a Side Hustle. Our CEO Helped.
Our top salesperson made $6,000 in two days building websites with Claude, alongside his day job. Our co-founder and CEO encouraged it. The old script calls that a flight risk; the new math calls it the cheapest AI-fluency program a business can run.
Mothers Run the Triage CEOs Pay to Learn
In July 2022, I published a triage protocol from inside a flu week. It is the same discipline executives pay retreats to learn, and mothers run it daily by necessity.