What's New
Every week we publish new articles and add books to the library. Here's everything that landed this week.
Why self-care advice is psychologically inadequate for the unique pressures of entrepreneurship
The case for structural support over symptom management — and what adequate wellbeing actually requires for entrepreneurs
Say Good Night to Insomnia
Gregg Jacobs
Say Good Night to Insomnia by Gregg Jacobs. Jacobs’s research-grounded account of the CBT-I programme developed at Harvard is the most directly applicable available treatment of the evidence for why the cognitive and behavioural patterns that maintain insomnia are the correct clinical target, and why the sleep disruption that the entrepreneurial context produces is both addressable and worth addressing as a primary mental health intervention rather than a secondary productivity concern. His account of the specific patterns, monitoring behaviour, compensatory strategies, and catastrophising cognitions that sustain insomnia once the original trigger has passed maps directly onto the Harvey cognitive model that the article covers, and his treatment of the CBT-I evidence base is accessible without clinical background while remaining grounded in the research. For the founder who wants to understand both why their sleep is disrupted and what the most evidence-supported available intervention for addressing it looks like, Jacobs provides the most research-grounded and practically oriented starting point.
Why self-care advice is psychologically inadequate for the unique pressures of entrepreneurship
The case for structural support over symptom management — and what adequate wellbeing actually requires for entrepreneurs
The psychology of entrepreneurial substance use: why entrepreneurs self-medicate with alcohol, caffeine, and stimulants
The self-medication hypothesis, the neurochemical logic behind specific substances, and the tolerance trajectory that turns coping into dependency
The psychology of entrepreneurial relationships — why building a business comes at a cost
The research on what entrepreneurship costs partners, families, and friendships — not as a side effect, but as…
The unmentioned statistics on entrepreneur mental health (and why they are worse than you think)
What the research actually shows — presented honestly, with the methodological caveats it deserves
The neuroscience of stress responses in entrepreneurs — fight, flight, freeze, and fawn in business contexts
Why your nervous system responds to a cash flow crisis the same way it would respond to a…
How to recognise when "pushing through" has crossed from resilience into psychological self-harm
The specific markers that distinguish healthy persistence from cumulative damage — and why the people most at risk…
The illusion of control — why entrepreneurs believe they have more influence over outcomes than they actually do
A genuinely complex finding: the same cognitive bias that makes you start a business is the one that makes you run it badly