Beyond labels
Job titles inflict pain as any definition does — they curtail thinking outside the box. Imagine what you can do with a bank of experience...
Category: Life
Freedom’s tension
Freedom’s ambition is to remain unattached, untethered from the yolk of others. Yet, it’s always the force that remains untapped. Why do we remain intrinsically...
Trivial proportion
A trivial proportion, work that’s immaterial. The precise category of work is a lifeline to a crispy identity. Experience often fails to deepen mastery. There’s...
The smell, the smell
The smell went right into the brain, bypassing all the cartilage and hitting straight to the neuronal wires. The eyes and ears no way could...
The paradox of loneliness
To dine alone or bowl alone are events that blend strangeness and familiarity. Yet, they, too, are entirely social. The export of one human mind...
To the moon
So little it’s immeasurable — that’s how improvement works. Effort is compounding. To remain elastic means to remain wide awake. The template for true consistency...
Too content for content
Time, infinitely manufactured, trains our brain to think forever. Eternity remains a distraction. In reality, time is scarce, the waning seconds escaping like quicksand. “One...
Into the sinkhole
The river of worries, always tangled up in the present. There are none more inundating than the pervasive daggers, unwanted and given the majority position....
Expecting the least expected
Taking a stand, gradually and then suddenly. The forever longs and forever hopes of doing something urge an itch. It’s the experience that radically transforms...
Virtually experienced, hardly seen
We record events, to realize that they’re happening — not necessarily that we want to experience them. The aperture opens the lens to reality, the...
Rightsizing life
The reduction of ambition rightsizes one’s life. Suddenly, those magnetic forces, trophies, hefty pocketbooks, and rich attractions lose their lure. All the stylization and mimetic...
The visionary compass
To be interesting, we have to be interested, that is, an atypical perspective discovers atypicality in our surroundings. Different is a way of seeing. But...