Ideas for ambitious people asking inconvenient questions.

I spent years learning how to succeed. I’m more interested these days in what happens after you’ve gotten good at it.

These are some of the ideas I keep returning to in my writing, speaking, and forthcoming memoir, Insecure Overachiever: the psychology of achievement, the strange relationship between self-doubt and ambition, burnout, career identity, intuition, and the difficult work of figuring out what you actually want.

Think of this as a small library of recurring themes rather than a feed. For essays and newer pieces, head to Writing.