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Yoan Krastev
Essays on work, ambition and the career decisions people rarely say out loud. I spent years as a risk consultant. Now I’m leaving finance to write full time.
Recent articles
All articlesThe Expensive Comfort of Keeping Your Options Open
Optionality is one of the most respected ideas in corporate careers, and one of the most likely to keep you exactly where you are.
Discipline Is a Schedule, Not a Feeling
Motivation is weather. The people who build things outside their day job have mostly stopped waiting for it.
The Stable Path Is Also a Bet
Staying in a secure job feels like the absence of risk. After years of measuring risk for a living, I think it’s just a risk we’ve stopped pricing.
About me
My name is Yoan. After 5 years of studying, analysing and consulting on risk, I decided to take one. I quit a well-paying finance job and put thousands of miles between myself and the life I was supposed to want. I don’t know if this is going to work. But I’d rather find out now than spend my life wondering ‘what if.’