What's New
Every week we publish new articles and add books to the library. Here's everything that landed this week.
Perfectionism masquerades as high standards and kills businesses
The pursuit of perfection is costing you more than imperfection ever would
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.
Perfectionism masquerades as high standards and kills businesses
The pursuit of perfection is costing you more than imperfection ever would
The psychology of founder loneliness — why running a business is the most isolating thing you'll ever do
What nobody tells you about the specific loneliness that comes with building something
Why most founders secretly hate their own business
Building something you perceive to be good, could be the one thing destroying you.
Impostor syndrome gets worse the more successful you become
Enough is never enough, you will always want more.
The grief nobody tells you comes with building a business
Entrepreneurship can make or break you.
Why entrepreneurs keep starting businesses even after financial freedom
That desire to build more when you've thought you built enough.
The cognitive distortion that makes every competitor look more successful than they are
It's true when they say "don't believe everything you see online"