Pillar II of IIIBeyond Babra · The Journal2 essays
── Money
On money,
quietly.
Not about trends or shortcuts — about discipline as a life skill. What growing up around scarcity taught me about patience with capital.
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What Growing Up Around Small Money Taught Me About Discipline
You do not learn about money in business school. You learn about it in the sound of your mother counting coins at the kitchen table.
February 8, 2026 · 9 min read
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The other pillars.
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Pillar I · Travel
Enter →Notes from the road.
The visa is not the hard part. The waiting is. Here is what I learned, application after application.
Pillar III · Mindset
Enter →The inner work.
I was not the brightest child in the room. It took me twenty years to understand that this was not a problem to be solved.