Archive - Brendan Stec's Essays

Achievable vs. realistic goals

Later doesn't mean never

Jun 9 •

May 2025

Closer to co-intelligence

I operate with AI tools (e.g.

May 25 •

March 2025

Mar 29 •

January 2025

Business vs. sports competition

What some analogies miss about how to compete

Jan 19 •

October 2024

Thanks to AI, politeness matters more than ever

Doing the hard thing is becoming special

Oct 27, 2024 •

An escape from a bad team

Lessons on team performance, exponential AI, strategy and more

Oct 6, 2024 •

September 2024

Disagreements of Taste and Disagreements of Position

Lessons on navigating conflict

Sep 22, 2024 •

The growth tension model

A new model for impostor syndrome

Sep 8, 2024 •

August 2024

Searching for signals

My favorite books on systems thinking, human behavior, and quantitative topics

Aug 11, 2024 •

July 2024

An introduction to signals

Improve your thinking by recognizing life's recurring patterns

Jul 28, 2024 •

A simple signal to stick to your goals

And avoid downward drift

Jul 14, 2024 •

June 2024

The parable of the comb-over

How to avoid failing gradually

Jun 24, 2024

#nojs-banner { position: fixed; bottom: 0; left: 0; padding: 16px 16px 16px 32px; width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; background: red; color: white; font-family: -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; } #nojs-banner a { color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; } This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please turn on JavaScript or unblock scripts