About Stable Footing

Stable Footing is a weekly essay for high-performing adults who train seriously and think deliberately about how to hold up under load.

It runs on three pillars:

Practice

The body under load — strength, combat sports, conditioning, recovery, longevity. Adult-grade, not athlete-grade. The reader trains as a discipline.

Architecture

First-principles thinking applied to non-spatial problems — work, money, time, relationships. Frameworks named precisely; metaphors used structurally, not loosely.

Discipline

Applied stoicism — the disposition that follows from sustained practice. Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca quoted accurately and frugally.

Who writes this

Kris [last name] — 10+ years on the mat (BJJ / MMA), MIT architecture, ex-personal-trainer, ex-massage-business operator, commercial construction past, currently Head of Sales Engineering at an AI startup, active angel investor.

Stable Footing has nothing to do with that day job. It is a separate publication about physical practice and life architecture, written in the founder's own voice, on his own time.

New essay every Tuesday morning, ET. Subscribe free.