Life as Sales | The Andes There's a phrase drilled into every Korean soldier during long marches. 안전거리 유지 — Maintain a safe distance. Keep your spacing. Don't crowd the person in front of you. Move together, but not on top of each other. The march only works
Side Hustle Lab | The Andes Let me be completely honest with you. I don't have a side hustle yet. I have the intention. I have the urgency. I have a growing list of ideas that I've written down, crossed out, reconsidered, and written down again. What
Korea Insider | The Andes Most people who haven't been to Korea know three things about it. K-pop. Samsung. And something vaguely tense happening up north. That's not wrong. It's just about 5% of the picture. I've lived here my whole life, left
Good managers are made, not born. Most people become managers by accident. One day you're good at your job. The next day you're responsible for five people who are trying to be good at theirs. Nobody hands you a manual. Nobody tells you that the skills
Building in Public The deposit hits on the 25th. Every month, without fail. I check the number. It's good. Objectively, by any reasonable standard, it's good. I close the app and go back to whatever I was doing. No celebration. No relief. Just — okay. Next month,
Building in Public There's a moment most people have — usually somewhere in their late twenties or early thirties — where they look around and realize something uncomfortable. The plan didn't work. Not because the plan was bad. Not because you weren't smart enough. But because
Taking the road less taken Most people are afraid of failure. Not in theory. In practice — the kind that makes you quietly lower the bar, adjust the target, reframe what you originally wanted into something more achievable. You do this enough times and you wake up one day living a
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There's a mountain on the border between North Korea and China called Baekdu. It sits where two worlds meet — ancient, volcanic, and stubborn. It has survived ice ages, empires, and wars. Its mountain range runs from that northern peak all the way down through the spine of the