Balance a busy life, one ritual at a time.
Everything I've learnt, written down. I built Ritual to balance a busy life, and these guides are the rest of it: habits and goals, how I keep my mindset in check, business lessons, markets and trading, diet and training, the best of the podcasts and books I've learnt from, and the practical side of study and careers. Anything factual is checked against its source and dated.
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Mindset
How I think about setbacks, stress and staying in motion
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Authenticity is your edge: stop asking if they like you
I bent myself for every room until I forgot who I was. Heart on your sleeve, the question you ask in every room, staying yourself with your career on the line, and why the real you is the sharpest thing you own.
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Keep moving: the mindset that got me through my lowest point
Stay in motion, even 1% at a time. Control what you can and let the rest go. Earn your confidence, then own it. The way of thinking that got me back on my feet.
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Money
Books, markets and what I've learnt about money
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The 48 Laws of Money, part 2: patience and discipline
Compounding, starting now, investing for the person you'll become, discipline on the bad days, and putting a stop-loss on everything you start. Motivation is the fuel. Discipline is your wheels.
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The 48 Laws of Money, part 1: mindset
Money as a token, not the end. Comparison, emotions, luck versus skill, staying humble, and why the losses build you and the wins define you.
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Career
CVs, cover letters and applications
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Investment banking placement year: 5 things I wish I'd known on day one
My three-month M&A internship became eight. The five principles I'd hand anyone walking into a bank knowing nothing: the deep end, speed with accuracy, never sitting idle, getting your name known, and remembering everyone is human.
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Turn the volume, not the station: a letter to black students entering the workplace
The letter I wish someone had handed me, as a young black man, before my placement: the calculation nobody else is doing, what to adjust and what never to, your hair and the Halo Code, the conversation at home, and becoming the proof for whoever comes next.
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How to write a cover letter for finance and consulting
The one rule above all, how to research a deal or a report, what each of the three paragraphs is for, what to cut, six ways letters go wrong and the checklist I run before I send one.
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A one-page CV for spring weeks, internships and grad schemes
The layout and the rules behind it: no profile, a number and an outcome on every bullet, skills shown rather than listed, extracurriculars that count, and a template to copy.
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Academics
Grades, degrees and how university works
1Founder stories
Building Ritual, and what it's taught me
1Coming next: the business principles I've picked up, takeaways from The Diary of a CEO, how I keep my mindset in check, markets and trading, diet, habits and goal setting. In the meantime, the free degree classification calculator shows your average so far and what you need on the rest for a First or a 2:1.
§ 02RitualEarly access
Your habits, goals, work and study, in one app.
Every task you finish and habit you keep moves your own share price, so following through finally has a number on it. Pages for university, applications and more sit alongside. It's in beta: join the waitlist to hear first when places open.