Introducing "(almost) Everything is Context"

This newsletter is a space for disciplined conversation about what actually defines a fulfilling life, beyond slogans, shortcuts, and fashionable certainties.

The coaching and personal development arena has become a marketplace of overhyped clichés and intellectual laziness, dominated by recycled frameworks and an endless parade of "hacks" presented as universal solutions. Self-appointed gurus sell certainty with the confidence of infomercials. Social media scammers promise exponential returns on life itself. Tech founders, barely out of their twenties, dispense existential advice between cold plunges and productivity routines, unaware of the irony of teaching depth before having encountered it.

Much of this industry mistakes confidence for insight and repetition for truth. It favors clean answers over honest ones, speed over understanding, performance over reflection. The result is not transformation but distraction, a constant churn of ideas that feel energizing yet rarely hold up under pressure, complexity, or time.

Yet beneath this noise, something more serious persists: a genuine hunger for work that takes life seriously rather than simplistically. For thinking that does not rush to resolve tension but is willing to stay with it. If you have grown skeptical of neat formulas and universal prescriptions, you already know that meaningful questions do not yield clear answers. They yield trade-offs. They yield consequences. More often than not, the most accurate response is not certainty, but "it depends."

Context is not a footnote to human behavior. It is the operating system. Decisions, beliefs, emotions, and character do not exist in isolation—they emerge from specific histories, pressures, roles, constraints, and moments in time. Strip away context, and you are left with abstractions that may sound compelling but fail when applied to real lives.

Each post in this newsletter takes on a single theme with focus and restraint. The aim is not to motivate, persuade, or reassure, but to clarify. To dismantle bad science, borrowed wisdom, and comforting myths, and replace them with grounded frameworks that respect complexity while remaining usable. This is not about finding the right answers, but about learning to ask better questions and navigate a richer, more honest way of living."