Great blog post and a recommended read for 2026.
> We’ve been conditioned to believe that a regular salary is the ultimate safety net, and that stepping away from it automatically means living in a constant state of anxiety.
Young people have also been promised 'jobs for life' and guarantees that now don't exist in 2026.
The ultimate vulnerability in humans is social engineering.
>...If you’re a human, sitting in traffic, with your heart racing to 180 because you’re going to be late for a meeting, that same physiological response becomes harmful. There’s no lion. There’s no immediate threat. Yet the body reacts as if there is.
Imagine this everyday and with the fact that you have no idea that someone can just take your job away as if it never mattered because of...
> Deadlines, office politics, performance reviews, and fear of layoffs kept my nervous system constantly activated. The paycheck doesn’t really eliminate stress, it just changes the flavor of the stories we worry about.
Fighting over a fixed amount of money that your employer sees you as a cost. The fact is, they do not care and when push comes to shove you will be the first off the ship.
The smarter solution is to build a startup for yourself instead of wasting time in endless meetings and office politics, for what?
You will not get your time back.
