On building a life that feels like you

There's a pattern inside you

Finding it — and building your work and life around it — is the whole game.

A letter every week or two — follow along:
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ALPHΩ

The Way Out

Most people never find their pattern — let alone build their work and life around it. They run someone else's script, hit someone else's marks, and call it winning. It works — right up until it stops feeling like theirs. That's the gap between just succeeding and actually flourishing.

The way out, for me, became a system. 

I call it AlphΩ: happiness as the actual goal, three domains that produce it — Health, Skill, Wealth — compounding as one flywheel, and the discipline most advice misses: training equanimity and striving for the right things, instead of picking a side. Ancient philosophy, modern psychology, pressure-tested on my own rebuild.

I write about it in my letters. And for a few people at a time, I build it with them.

CURRENT WORK

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Publishing writings on energy, clarity, work, freedom and happiness →

exploring authentic happiness by synergizing optimized health, skill, and wealth in my meditations →

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Modder's Meditations

exploring human potential, moral wealth creation, and finding fulfillment by working with your innate talents

The Hustler And The Monk Are Both Half Wrong
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On striving, accepting, and the interplay where happiness lives. The letter below, as well as any new letters, are now published on Modder's Meditations on Substack. Click here to follow along → COEN MAR 28, 2026 What do you do it all for? If I asked “What drives you? What do you want — actual...
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Imagine - Practicing Mentally
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Many -successful- people swear by visualization. They truly believe that if they think hard enough about something they want and envision themselves with every fibre of their bodies already having it - how it feels, looks, smells - that they will get it. And the strange thing is (or is it?) - it wor...
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Are You Taking Care Of Your Most Important Asset?
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You can only perform as good as your body and mind allow for. They are your tools - your instrument. When you regard them as such, taking good care of them makes all the more sense. “A sound mind is in a sound body" "Perfecting the personal regularly leads to success as a professional - […]...
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Steal Like An Artist While Emulating Chefs
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It’s hard to argue against the fact that we are constantly being influenced by all that we see in the world around us - consciously, but definitely also unconsciously. Being aware of this and on the lookout for the recyclable building blocks that make something -anything- “great,” allows you t...
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ABOUT ME

Hey, I'm Coen — writer, framework-builder, architect-for-one.

I wrote Hack the Piano and built the music-education business around it into something that succeeded by every outside measure — and I lived the exact problem this page describes from the inside. The way out wasn't a tweak, and it wasn't a leap. It was design: work that's actually mine, built on everything I'd lived, around the interplay of Health, Skill, and Wealth.

Now I do that design work with a handful of people at a time — reading the pattern underneath everything you've done well, and architecting the work that finally expresses it.

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