THE STREETLIGHT
I write for people who want to understand what's really going on. In the world, in their industry, in their own life. After 22 businesses and a lifetime of starting over across four countries, I've learned that clarity doesn't come from more information. It comes from seeing clearly and having the courage to act on what you see.
SYSTEMS
For almost all of human history, people lived in bands of roughly thirty adults. Something changed.
SYSTEMS
Affection becomes something to be earned, unlocked, and upgraded. And how we can steal them back.
SYSTEMS
The people selling AI need you to believe it will replace everything. The numbers say something different.
COURAGE
We write, we build, we create because we must. Because it's needed. And just "because."
CHOICES
We fought for a world where anyone could make anything, and we got it. It turned out to be a prison.
SYSTEMS
There's a glitch in the code of our shared reality.
CHOICES
Tomorrow is not something that happens to you. It's what you choose to make it.
COURAGE
Most of us live in a state of waiting. We tell ourselves that "someday" we'll start. Here's the truth about someday.
COURAGE
I gave up on winning the content game. I gave up on becoming a content creator. Then I discovered I still wanted to write.
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