Presence Under
Pressure.

There is a particular kind of frustration — and I suspect you know it, even if you’ve never quite named it — that comes from being genuinely good at something, perhaps exceptionally good, and finding that this goodness doesn’t fully translate into the outcomes you expected it to produce.

I write about that gap. How it works, why it persists, and what, specifically, you can do about it. The writing is careful, it’s at some length, and it doesn’t pretend these things are simple — because they aren’t, and you deserve better than someone who tells you they are.

— Sam