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3 new articles this week

May 07 2026 – 05:01pm

I published three new articles on Substack this week:

  1. Why the Curious Peak Late: When you’re curious it takes longer to build your foundation.
  2. Not finishing what you start is actually pretty smart: The unique paper trail of the man who published 500 – and left 150 unfinished – tells us a lot about how creative work gets done (or doesn’t).
  3. 47 lessons from 47 years: self-explanatory.

What’s up with the Substack?

This flurry of Substack articles is part of what Finish What Matters Preview Edition readers will recognize as a period of “coming up for air.” After years of inductively writing a book, I’m deductively revisiting the concepts in various mediums – Substack articles being one of them.

The goal is not only to iterate on the ideas so they come out more crisply, but also to get a feel for viable marketing channels for when the book launches.

If it’s confusing to decide whether to stay subscribed here or subscribe on Substack, I apologize! I myself am a little confused where to put my work in this world of so many walled gardens, and Substack may be a promising channel to get my work in front of more people.

If you’d like to help, I’d appreciate you subscribing to my Substack publication, Maximum Reverie.

Perhaps these articles will all be syndicated here on the blog at some point, but for this moment Substack is the focus of my experimentation.

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