Founder Playbook

Mindset
I started this new practice where whenever I it's I call it my Envy log and so whenever I feel Envy I just take a little mental note of it and it's usually with another Creator... I lay in bed and I just I if you're not watching this my eyes are closed I'm like a mummy laying down... just feel what you need to feel about it's kind of like the way you would talk to a child... and then it just kind like it just dissolves

Keep an Envy log — name your jealousies, feel them, let them dissolve

Envy is the dominant background emotion of the creator economy — every metric is on public display. Suppressing it doesn't work; intellectualizing it doesn't work. Maintain an Envy log: note each creator you envied today and what specifically about them, then at night lay still and feel the envy fully without trying to fix it. After 5-10 reps the same trigger stops firing. You're training your nervous system, not solving a logic problem.


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Khe Hy
RadReads / The Examined LifeEx-Wall Street, ~9 years as a creator-entrepreneur. RadReads newsletter (250+ consecutive weekly essays, 419+ issues twice-weekly) + The Examined Life podcast. Did ~$1.3M over 3 years of cohort-based courses, then walked away from the info-products game.
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