Apr 21
What 36 months of less work taught me about enough
What 36 months of working 3.5-day weeks taught me about energy, ambition, and conventional schedules.
3 min read
Marissa Brassfield
Trusted advisor, simplifier, and loving catalyst of your biggest and best initiatives. Discovering how to stretch time, maximize ease, and optimize work-life alignment.
Apr 20
Energy Management for Entrepreneurs: The Capacity Framework That Replaces Time Blocking
You have been managing the wrong resource. Time is finite. Energy is renewable.
6 min read
Apr 17
How to Close the Vision-Execution Gap: A Nervous System Approach
The gap between where you are and where you want to be has a name. It also has a solution.
6 min read
Apr 15
Somatic Intelligence for Leaders: How Your Body Processes Business Data Faster Than Your Brain
Your body processes business data six seconds before your brain catches up. The question is whether you're listening.
6 min read
Apr 15
Physical Signs You Need to Quit Your Job (Your Body Knows Before You Do)
The body keeps score at work, too. Yours may already be telling you something.
6 min read
Apr 14
Your regulation is everyone else's permission
When you regulate your nervous system, you give everyone around you permission to do the same.
3 min read
Apr 13
The 3.5-Day Workweek: How It Actually Works
The 3.5-day workweek I've run since March 16, 2023: what got eliminated, what AI carries, and the boundaries that make the math hold.
7 min read
Apr 10
Scaling Without Losing Yourself: The Identity Cost That Shows Up Around Year 3
The hardest part of scaling is not the systems. It is staying recognizable to yourself.
5 min read
Apr 08
The AI Side Effects I Noticed After 18 Months of Daily Use
AI doesn't simplify work. It multiplies it. Here's how to recognize the side effects and build the elimination discipline that actually saves time.
4 min read
Apr 07
The threshold where confidence goes to die
The threshold where confidence collapses isn't failure. It's the space between who you were and who you're becoming.
2 min read
Apr 06
What Your AI Resistance Already Knows
Your reaction to AI isn't about technology. Relief, threat, guilt, excitement: your body is telling you something about your relationship to your work.
4 min read
Apr 03
The Real AI Divide: Discernment Versus Speed
The leaders getting left behind aren't refusing AI. They're using it for everything, including the decisions that need their own judgment.
4 min read