08/13/2026
"I'll sleep when the quarter closes."
He was in his early fifties. Brilliant. The kind of executive who holds a room without raising his voice. Everyone at that table laughed — because everyone at that table was running the same arrangement.
I laughed too. Then I thought about it for a week.
He wasn't being tough. He was borrowing against a body he still needs in fifteen years.
Your biology is either your competitive advantage or your liability. There's no neutral column.
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