🧹 Keeping House
A quick update on switching to Ghost, an upcoming name change, and a pay-what-ya-want model.
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⌛The Year of Timeliness
What is time, and how do I actually use it?
I spent substantial portions of this year evaluating time and my relationship to it, and, as with any sufficiently nuanced prompt, I'm left with more questions than answers.
Fortunately, part of this year has also been about learning
🎙️ (Un)productive Hobbies
The arc of my life, in terms of productivity, is a strange one. I think I've been missing something along the way.
A comfortable upbringing found me apathetic, happy enough with average grades and better than average friendships that I felt little ambition to really try.
Then I
❓The Questions Themselves
Answers. We spend our lives in search of them. We are desperate for them, so desperate that we embrace slipshod shortcuts that allow us to circumvent the work we ought to put in to arrive at those answers. To cut right through it and get to the end as fast
📍Where You Are
Let's start with a confession:
Sometimes my best inspiration stems from Reddit.
Take the Warrior-Scholar's Field Guide, for example. This is the grounding document for our college success curriculum at Warrior-Scholar Project boot camps. One section of the guide opens with the following quotes:
“Pavlov probably
⋰ Forward, Back, Left, Right...Diagonal
Last night, I raised a glass with a friend. Catching odd inspiration, I ordered a Sazerac. I must say, it felt cool to order. Sure, "I'll have a beer" is fine, but "Hmm, how's your Sazerac?" Sublime. And it tasted darn good,
🫸 Patience, My Love
Patience — ugh! Where's the fun in that?
As someone almost always in go-mode, I'll admit that patience isn't my favorite virtue. But I'm learning, through unique experiences, how valuable it is in steadying myself and staying balanced.https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/49dc6dad-3df0-4bfd-942f-7c1b1f048aa2
🫵 You, You
The responses to last week's post about burnout and an intentional road to recovery have been overwhelming. Between public and private messages, I clearly struck a chord—if I haven't responded to you yet, I'll get there!
As I processed the response in my
⇒ (Moving) Forward
Hi!
I've been gone for a bit. The reasons are both simple and complex.
I'm coming back here in really the only way I know how: a post reflecting on major life events that eschews best practices for search engine optimization in favor of organically sharing
🤞 A Skeptic's Hope
It's Fourth of July in the year 2025, and I'm conflicted.
On Skepticism
I am, by nature, a skeptic. At times, I've leaned too deeply into that skepticism, allowing it to poison the possibilities of better outcomes. In other cases, it has served me