Thirty days until spring, the snow is melting like a slow hourglass, and Matt’s got sardines on his mind — a Christmas gift from a relative that’s been sitting there daring him to crack it open with some saltines. After a quick detour through the first submarine to sink a warship (1864, for the history buffs), he gets to what’s really occupying his headspace this Tuesday.

Six weeks into the new year, Matt’s zeroing in on a tension every entrepreneur knows too well: the pull between survival mode — just making money, saying yes to everything — and the discipline of building something scalable. The trap is that day-to-day expedient decisions can quietly set you off course from where you actually want to go, creating what he calls your own “mind and money tomb.” The antidote? Keeping the vision of scalability front and center, trusting the process, and staying intentional even when the answers aren’t fully clear yet. A day full of networking and human connection ahead — making a path, as he puts it, for the miracle to happen.

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