I measured my brain during one of the hardest business trips of my year. Here’s what I learned about performance

Last month, I traveled through three countries and multiple time zones, packing investor meetings, customer dinners, panels, and leadership sessions into just 10 days. Like many founders, I wore the schedule as a badge of honor. If I could keep up, I assumed I was performing at my best.  Then I looked at my brain. Throughout the trip, I’d been wearing Neurable’s EEG-powered headphones, giving me an objective view of how my brain responded to everything from travel and sleep to stress and recovery. Rather than relying only on how I felt, I could compare my subjective experience with objectiv...