Growth

I’ve been thinking about how to do this series for a while.

The Setup gives you my weekly regime call. The Breakdown goes deep on themes. The Pulse catches stuff that can’t wait until Sunday. But none of that explains how I actually think about this stuff. the mental models, the frameworks, the hard-won lessons from getting it wrong more times than I’d like to admit.

That’s what The Mastermind is for. Less “here’s the answer,” more “here’s how I think about the question.”

I’m not going to hand you a recipe. Partly because the specific indicators I use aren’t magic, they’re just the ones I’ve found work for me. Partly because if you just copy someone else’s framework without understanding why it works, you’ll abandon it the first time it gives you a signal you don’t like. And partly because, honestly, I think you’ll build something better if you understand the principles and adapt them to your own style.

We’re starting with Growth. It’s the pillar I weight most heavily, and it took me the longest to get right. Let me tell you why.