Polymath Performance

10/19/2026

There are few things I enjoy more than watching really smart people become exceptional at something together.

That’s what I’m seeing with the Golden State Valkyries.

Defense. Discipline. Versatility. Trust.

Most importantly, I see a willingness to drag opponents into basketball hell for 40 minutes.

So Monday night I’m back at Elevation 66 Brewing Company for Game 2 of the WNBA Finals.

Come have a b**r. Grab some food. Watch elite basketball with good people.

🏀 Golden State Valkyries vs. Atlanta Dream
🏆 WNBA Finals: Game 2
🕔 Monday, October 19, 2026 at 5 PM
📍 Elevation 66 - El Cerrito, CA

Good people. Great games. Better company.

10/19/2026

The Bay has another championship team to rally around. 💜

This Valkyries team is quickly becoming one of my favorites.

They don’t just beat you. They make you uncomfortable. They pressure you. They take away what you want to do. They make every possession feel expensive.

Atlanta gets another shot Monday night.

So do we.

Game 2 of the WNBA Finals.

I’ll be at Elevation 66 in El Cerrito, CA watching with whoever wants to pull up.

📅 Monday, October 19, 2026
⏰ 5 PM PT
🏀 Valkyries vs. Dream
📍 Elevation 66 Brewing Company

If you’ve been watching all season, come through.

If you’re just discovering the Valkyries now, this is a damn good time to join us.

10/18/2026

The Valkyries took Game 1, and Monday night October 19, 2026 we get to do it again.

I’ll be at Elevation 66 Brewing Company in El Cerrito, CA watching Golden State take on the Atlanta Dream in Game 2 of the WNBA Finals.

If you’re in the Bay Area, pull up.

This team is ridiculously fun to watch, the Finals are getting nasty, and sports are simply better when there are other people in the room who care.

🏆 WNBA Finals: Game 2
📅 Monday, October 19
⏰ 5:00 PM PT
📍 Elevation 66 Brewing Company; El Cerrito, CA

Good people. Great games. Better company.

Come watch with me.

10/16/2026

I love the WNBA. So this one is easy. 🏀💜

The Golden State Valkyries are in the WNBA FINALS, and I’m watching Game 1 at Elevation 66 Brewing Company in El Cerrito.

So if you’re in the Bay Area and you want to watch with actual people instead of yelling at your television by yourself 😂 — come watch with me.

Golden State Valkyries vs. Atlanta Dream
🏆 WNBA Finals — Game 1
📅 Saturday, October 17
⏰ Tipoff: 12:30 PM PT
📍 Elevation 66 Brewing Company — El Cerrito, CA

Good food. Cold b**r. Big game. Good people.

And yes, wear your violet. 💜

I want to help make Elevation 66 one of the places the East Bay knows it can come together for the games and moments that matter. This is a pretty damn good place to start.

Come watch history with me.

10/10/2026

10/08/2026

A task ends when you finish it. A problem ends when something gets better.

Doing your job keeps you employed. Solving problems for your team makes you the person they plan around.

Keep learning. Find a good mentor. Focus on value.

What's one problem on your team nobody owns yet? Tell me below.

09/09/2026

Most people think they're underperforming. They're just in the wrong seat.

I've spent two decades watching this play out in real people. Gifted kids who got labeled "too much" in a classroom built for the average pace. Twice-exceptional adults who ace the interview and then get managed like a problem to contain. Polymathic operators who get told to "pick a lane" by people who've never had to build one.

Here's the thing nobody says out loud: none of that is a capability problem. It's a placement problem.

Your brain runs spider-web cognition, not a straight line. Burst productive, not steady-state. Fast-processing, pattern-jumping, allergic to busywork that doesn't connect to something real. That's not a flaw to manage. That's a specific kind of engine and most environments were never built to run it.

You don't need to shrink. You don't need another productivity hack duct-taped onto a job that was never designed for how you actually think. You need the right seat, the right room, the right structure around the thing that already works.

This is the whole thesis behind Portfolio Career School: most underperformance is a placement problem, not a capability problem. Change the environment before you ever consider changing yourself.

If you're the neurodivergent, twice-exceptional, underutilized, underappreciated person who's been told your whole life you're "so smart, so why can't you just..." this one's for you. You were never the problem. The seat was.

Drop a 🪑 if you've felt this. Save this for the version of you that's still trying to fix herself instead of fixing the fit.

08/03/2026

There is a very important meeting over the next three days.

Nine attendees. Eight figures in revenue to be distributed. A long-term negotiation that started a month ago and is continuing after a three-week cool-off period.

This meeting will be conducted in front of friends, family, and allies. All of it live. All of it public.

There is a clear hierarchy among the participants, built entirely off their current position on the cap table.

No one in that room reports to anyone else in that room. There is no boss. There is no org chart on the wall.

And yet the hierarchy could not be more rigid. One seat controls more than a third of the value at the table. It would take 4 other attendees to match their stake.

The person with the most leverage has held that position for less time than everyone else in the room. He is also the youngest person at the table.

Every attendee already has a guaranteed outcome most people would call the best year of their life and almost every one of them is going to leave this meeting feeling like they lost something.

Nobody is getting fired. Nobody is walking away broke. And somehow, that's almost beside the point.

What am I talking about? Take your guesses below and if you want the answer, check out article.

There is a very important meeting over the next three days. Nine attendees.

07/29/2026

Swipe. This one's for anyone who's been told their reading is the problem.

A thermometer gives a reading. 68 degrees isn't wrong. It's not right either. It's just what the room is doing right now. Nobody moralizes a thermometer.

But if you're gifted, twice exceptional, multipotentialite, spider web cognition, or just an ADHD brain running on burst productivity instead of steady hours, people have moralized your reading your whole life. Fast processing becomes "scattered." Five interests running at once becomes "flaky." Finishing fast and stopping becomes "lazy." None of that is a temperature you failed. It's a moral judgment you were handed.

My dad told me something a long time ago. I never forgot it. I'm a thermostat. Not a thermometer. Too cold, I turn up. Too hot, I turn down. I make sure the reading lands where it needs to be to get the result. A thermometer reports. A thermostat acts.

Most advice in this space stops at "there's nothing wrong with you." True. Also not enough. Relief isn't the finish line. It's the starting gun. Knowing your temperature isn't broken doesn't hand you the thermostat. It just clears the shame so you can finally reach for one.

Nobody hands you a thermostat. You have to know you're allowed to hold one, and become the person in the room who sets it.

This is the whole thesis behind Portfolio Career School: most underperformance isn't a capability problem. It's a placement problem. You were never the wrong temperature. You were in the wrong room, being handed someone else's dial.

If that's you: what room have you been trying to survive in instead of setting the temperature yourself?

Drop it below. I'm reading every one.

07/24/2026

You didn't get less smart. Knowledge just got cheaper.

I stood in front of a room of MBAs from Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Kellogg and told them their degree isn't the asset it used to be.

Not because they're not brilliant. Because information stopped being rare. Anyone can pull a median-quality answer to almost anything now, in seconds, for free. That used to be the whole game. Know more, get paid more. That game's over.

Here's what didn't get commoditized: asking the question nobody else saw. Knowing which answer to actually trust. The nerve to ship the thing instead of polishing it forever in private.

If you're the one who's always had five interests instead of one lane, the one who got called scattered, unfocused, "just pick already", this is the part nobody told you. Spider-web cognition was never the flaw you managed around. It's the exact skillset that just became the scarcest thing in the room.

I built a framework for it: FORGE. Framing. Orchestration. Retrieval. Grounded Judgment. Ex*****on. Five things a model can't do for you, no matter how good it gets.

If you've spent your whole career overutilized and underappreciated for having too many skills running at once, save this post. You'll want it the next time someone tells you to specialize.

Which one of the five have you been leaning on? Which one did nobody ever teach you? Tell me below; I'll read every comment.