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An Ouroboros of Doors
Each threshold feels like a decision. Surely all this opening must be taking you somewhere. Then you notice the scratch beside the hinge. You hav…
Reflections
Personal essays on everyday choices, courage, kindness, and change.
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Take the Long Way
Somewhere near your house is a road you’ve never been down. You’ve passed it a hundred times. You know the turn exists. Every time, you’ve had somewhere to be. I wonder what’s down there. Probably houses. A mailbox…
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What You Leave in the Room
Last week, I asked who wakes up in your bed. This week, I keep thinking about who walks away from your table. The person who just had lunch with you. The child who came to show you something. The stranger who got…
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Who Woke Up This Morning?
Last night, you stopped. Not died. Just stopped. Somewhere after you closed your eyes, the lights went out. No thoughts. No you. Hours passed that you have no record of, and you weren't there for a single one of…
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Common Sense Isn’t Common 250 Years Later
Common sense is not common. It must be made common by courage. It must be shouted until it echoes. It must be lived until it cannot be forgotten.
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Congruence
If I claim to believe something, where is the evidence of that belief in my life? Not in what I post. Not in what I intend. In how I actually spe…
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What Convenience Costs
Things modern life gave us, and what it quietly took… I've been thinking a lot about what convenience actually costs. Every modern shortcut promi…
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Risk It?
“Risk it?” Don’t start the business. It’s going to fail. Don’t work out. You’ll always be out of shape. Don’t eat healthy. Not worth it. Don’t ge…
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Call Again
"CALL AGAIN" SCENE: Same kitchen. 6:40am. Caffeine. The laptop is closed. MOMENTUM: Morning. Eleven yesterday. ME: Eleven calls. MOMENTUM: Eleven…
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The Big Plan
"THE BIG PLAN" SCENE: A kitchen. 11pm. A laptop glows ominously. Cookie dough is present. AMBITION:Okay. The dream. We're doing it. ME: Love it. …
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What If Immortality Is a Trap?
What if immortality is a trap? Imagine a researcher named Elias, a man driven by pattern-seeking and an obsession with defining humanity. To answ…
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The Miracle Already Happened
I was in a meeting this past week, where one of the speakers were talking about one of the most impactful questions asked to them: “Suppose tonig…
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Qui-Gon Jinn and the Council
Let me tell you about the galaxy’s greatest crime, and no, it’s not Order 66. It’s that Qui-Gon Jinn never sat on the Jedi Council. The man was w…
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Control or Growth
One evening, a founder I respect told me something that i'm still tryna workout in my head. He'd spent years building from nothing. Then, the for…
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The Cartographer and the River
Just for funzie- I had some Appalachian mountain man in my head writin it so bear with it. The Cartographer and the River There was a man up our …
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Thirteen Years Later
13 years ago I was 15 For the last 13 years I’ve been trying to figure out how to actually be myself. What to believe in. What path to take. Who …
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The Sixth Chair
I’ve often heard it said, “Hang around five millionaires, or hang around five alcoholics, you’ll become the sixth.” THE SIXTH CHAIR In a small to…
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Moving On Without Erasing
Moving on isn’t erasing. It’s integrating. Growth doesn’t mean the past stops crossing your mind. It means the memories no longer run your decisi…
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The Lessons of If
A once dear friend hand-wrote Rudyard Kipling’s If and mailed it to me while I was in bootcamp. I read it every morning and every night. The recr…
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It Is All on Loan
"You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You…