Do you have a Spiky Profile?
Some people run flat. Steady input, steady output, every day looks like the last. This isn’t for them.
This is for the other kind—the ones whose output is a series of spikes and troughs. Brilliant for three weeks, invisible for two. The ones who’ve been called inconsistent on every review, who can architect a system in a weekend but can’t make themselves answer an email, who keep waiting to “fix their discipline” and keep ending up in the same place.
If that’s you—or someone you’re trying to understand—here’s the reframe: you are not broken. Your system is misaligned. A car that veers left doesn’t have a character flaw. It has a suspension problem. You’ve been trying to willpower your way out of what is actually a mechanical failure.
The Spiky Profile is an operating manual for that brain. It’s built on a simple piece of physics: Destiny = Direction × Engine. Direction is Probability × Extrapolation; Engine is Time × Consistency—the Four Forces that multiply into the life you’re actually pointed at. This newsletter takes that framework apart one piece at a time: architecture vs. willpower, position vs. slope, the Valley of Invisibility, and the rest.
I’m Luis. I’m an engineer by training. I spent years assuming the problem was me before I started treating it as a system to be redesigned. These articles are the manual I wish I’d had.
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