Living for Monday - Barrett Brooks

Editor’s Note: This is the first essay in a series on what I learned as COO of ConvertKit as we grew from $3M to $30M ARR and 20 to 75 teammates while being bootstrapped and fully remote (before it was cool). ConvertKit is a creator economy software...

By 2050, we need to remove 10 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually in order to keep global temperatures from increasing more than 2ºC — the commonly accepted threshold for when the climate would become unbearably hot and...

I get a version of this question regularly: “What are the 3-4 coaching questions or exercises most likely to produce breakthroughs?”
I get where it comes from. What if you could boil coaching down to powerful questions anyone can ask themselves anytime they’re looking for a breakthrough?...

In August 2021, I resigned from my role as COO at ConvertKit. I sold most of my stock and set aside funds for a sabbatical of undetermined length. In the 18 months following my departure, I transitioned industries; pursued three six-month career experiments...