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Malika Coleman

Malika S. Coleman is a senior client associate in the wealth management space in Chicago. She holds an MBA and various other certifications and licenses. She is building several things on the side: a personal operations service, a lifestyle company, and the category that connects them. She writes about that work, and what she has come to believe about systems, credibility, & the architecture of a life that holds, in monthly letters here. The lens is structural. Most of what gets called discipline, she thinks, is actually design that someone forgot they built.

Issue 08

Jul 10, 2026

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2 min read

Issue 08

Build the Room Before You Need It

Malika Coleman
Malika Coleman
Issue 07

Jul 3, 2026

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2 min read

Issue 07

The map is not the territory

Malika Coleman
Malika Coleman
Issue 06

Jun 26, 2026

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2 min read

Issue 06

The Week You Inherited

Malika Coleman
Malika Coleman
Issue 05

Jun 19, 2026

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2 min read

Issue 05

The instrument, not the music

Malika Coleman
Malika Coleman
On the Quiet Years

Jun 12, 2026

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5 min read

On the Quiet Years

For the people who are building, while everyone they know seems to be announcing.

Malika Coleman
Malika Coleman
What I Have Come to Believe About Credibility

Jun 5, 2026

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7 min read

What I Have Come to Believe About Credibility

Malika Coleman
Malika Coleman
The Sunday I Built So the Week Could Survive Itself

May 29, 2026

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8 min read

The Sunday I Built So the Week Could Survive Itself

On what looks excessive, and what it actually is.

Malika Coleman
Malika Coleman
What I Am Going to Write Down

May 22, 2026

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8 min read

What I Am Going to Write Down

Elevate Your Essence

Malika Coleman
Malika Coleman

Letters from Malika

A monthly letter from Malika S. Coleman. On systems, on credibility, on the architecture of a life that holds together — and occasionally on whatever else has actually been with me that month. Written for the people who would benefit from finding someone a few steps ahead, putting it down on paper, the way letters used to work.

© 2026 Letters from Malika.
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