🧠 Where Is My Mind
With your feet on the air and your head on the ground, try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse, if there's nothing in it, and you'll ask yourself
Where is my mind?
It's safe to assume Pixies (I really wanted
Topic
Reflections
A collection of 71 issues
🔋 Lunar Lessons
Look to the moon and consider what it may teach you.
It's always there, serving its purpose. It doesn’t always reveal its full self — even on cloudless nights, it may only offer a sliver. On rare occasion, it strikes a different color, an orangish-red that stirs attention.
🔋 Memorials & Purpose
I am here because others are not. I must move forward because others cannot.
This swirled through my mind during the minute of silence on Memorial Day, while I listened to the wind whipping through the flags around me.
This reality gives me purpose. It gives me strength. It gives
🔋 Finding Weird, Part 3 - The Bridge
Fear, then strength…then what?
We are at our best when we are ourselves. Our strange, unique, goofy selves. Believe that, and you will be better for it. This is my core contention.
In part one of this series, we talked about revealing and acknowledging fears — those insidious things that
🔋 Finding Weird, Part 2 - Strength
Let's keep getting weird, eh?
We all bring something different to the table. My contention is that the sooner we identify and lean into those differentiators, the sooner we can move towards fulfillment. Our weirdness is, to use a phrase I’m fond of, the good stuff.
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🔋 Embracing Weird, Part 1 - Fear
Let's get a little weird, eh?
One of the first posts I wrote in the recent incarnation of this blog was about finding your maximum and unique value. I think about that concept a lot. A less delicate way to describe it would be to ask: "What
🔋 A Zebra's Perspective
I wonder how many times I say the word "perspective" on a monthly basis. It's become one of those core concepts for me.
Some of this is the product of how I talk about Warrior-Scholar Project. What do we actually do? Sure, it's about
🔋 Priority Pivots
You've seen Friends, right?
Somehow I hadn't, at least not in full, until a couple years ago (good lookin' out, Em). Watching it rounded out some iconic memes and scenes I knew from the cultural zeitgeist but could never really explain.
Including:
It turns out
🔋 The Humbling Quest to Get More Done
Let me guess: you planned on getting more stuff done in 2025 than you did in 2024, and so far, it's not going particularly well.
For all our differences, for all our disparate views and backgrounds, there's a universal urge to do more. Dishearteningly, that'
🔋 Two Productivity Questions We Should (but don't) Ask
What are the productivity questions we should be pondering but don't actually take the time to ask?
Two Questions
When we set out to start something, it's all too easy to skip straight to the doing without spending time on the why. Asking and answering two