Methods started in a classroom. It was built for everyone who left one without a roadmap.

The Origin

I spent years teaching in New York City public schools.

I loved that work. Being in the room with young people when something clicked, watching a kid realize they were smarter than they thought, or figure out for the first time that the world was bigger than what they'd been shown. That kind of moment doesn't get old.

But I also watched something that bothered me. Year after year, students would move on into college, into careers, into adulthood, without any real framework for understanding themselves. They knew how to pass tests. They didn't know how to make good decisions. They didn't know what they valued, or how to identify what they were actually good at, or how to think about the life they were building.

Nobody had ever taught them that.

I left teaching to go into education technology, trying to bridge that gap at scale. And somewhere in that process, the shape of Methods started to become clear.

Why Methods Exists

We live in a genuinely difficult moment to know yourself.

There's more information available than any generation before us has ever had access to, and most of it is optimized to fragment your attention, sell you something, and show you a carefully edited version of other people's lives that feels like evidence of your own inadequacy.

Getting still enough to hear your own thinking is harder than it's ever been. And it matters more than it ever has.

Methods is a response to that. A structured, guided process for cutting through the noise and doing the inner work that makes everything else clearer. Not a shortcut. Not a hack. A real curriculum built on real self-reflection.

The Framework

Methods is organized around a simple but important idea: you can't build a good life from the outside in. Strategy without self-knowledge is just motion. Execution without direction is just noise.

The sequence matters. You start with Self: the inner work. Then you move into Strategy, building a plan based on who you are and what you want. Then comes community, accountability, and access to the people who've been where you want to go.

Most people skip straight to strategy. Or they jump to execution without either. Methods asks you to slow down enough to build something worth speeding up later.

The Philosophy Behind It All

Methods draws from a tradition of thinkers who believed that a well-examined life is the foundation of a well-lived one.

Marcus Aurelius on perspective and the power of the mind. Aristotle on self-knowledge as the beginning of wisdom. Paulo Coelho on the idea that each of us has a Personal Journey waiting to be found. The work isn't new. The structure, the exercises, and the application to modern life are.

Whether you're in the middle of a major decision, building momentum toward your next chapter, or simply want to understand yourself at a deeper level before your next move: you're in the right place.