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Andrew Carnegie · April 18, 2026 ·11 min read

The 5am Steel Mill Ritual: How I Built an Empire Before Breakfast

The wakeup, the reading block, the one-sheet priorities, the walking hour — a tactical morning playbook from the floor of the Edgar Thomson Works.