CalmHQStudio

/now

What the studio is doing right now.

Last updated 27 May 2026

This is a /now page — a snapshot of what's actually getting attention this month, instead of pretending the founder's bio is current. Refreshed when the answer meaningfully changes.

Building

  • ▸Verge — final polish ahead of the 1 July 2026 beta. Currently: tightening the contextual-baseline math, expanding the beta signup form, and writing the tester guide.
  • ▸Trader's Risk Workbook — finalising the Monte-Carlo drawdown simulator and the pre-mortem worksheet for the top 5 failure modes.
  • ▸The Calm Money Workspace — eight Notion databases wired together, currently writing the monthly-rollover automation.
  • ▸Two new live calculators on /tools shipped this week: position sizing + UK house affordability.

Reading

  • ▸
    Skin in the Game · Nassim Taleb

    Rereading. Worth it every few years.

  • ▸
    Wanting · Luke Burgis

    On mimetic desire. Sharp.

  • ▸
    The Mom Test · Rob Fitzpatrick

    Re-reading before the beta tester interviews start in July.

Thinking about

  • ▸Whether the Studio's newsletter should be paid-tier from launch or stay free-only. Honest answer: free-only. Earning trust before earning money.
  • ▸Why financial-literacy content is so bad in the UK specifically. The US has Money Stuff and Morningstar. We have Martin Lewis and... what else?
  • ▸Building a 'pre-flight' breathing exercise into Verge — three minutes before opening the platform. Tested it on myself for two weeks; works.

Deliberately not doing

  • ✕Investor calls — bootstrapped, not raising, not interested
  • ✕Trading other people's money — never again
  • ✕Twitter threads — the studio's writing lives at /journal, not in 12-tweet chains
  • ✕Building anything that requires being on call after 9pm

For the deeper version of the studio, read the about page. For the writing, the journal. For what's shipping, projects.

Inspired by Derek Sivers' /now page movement.