Pops was watching from around the corner while I learned to walk. Years later, I'm learning what it means to hold space for others the way he held space for me.

Courage isn't the absence of fear — it's acting despite it. From learning to walk in secret to presenting with visible trembling, the practice of carrying fear while still moving forward.

Violence two blocks from where I used to live collapses time and forces a reckoning with legitimate authority. Thirty-five years from Rodney King to Alex Pretti — the line must be drawn here.

On the dangerous hope of fabricating futures during a job search, and learning to stop crushing on companies. A reflection on patience, persistence, and permission to explore new paths.

When I catch myself saying 'my hubris just gave me a great idea,' it's a warning that I'm too excited to evaluate clearly. Hubris doesn't just give bad ideas—it makes me unable to see whether they're bad. The practice is simple: stop, quiet the noise, then let the signal come through.

Exploring gatekeeping in tech culture, relationships, and most importantly, the gates we build for ourselves. The only pattern was me, wasting energy to make things more difficult.

Your filter isn't passive interpretation — it's active construction. Explores how attention shapes what we encounter, why patterns become self-fulfilling, and the realization that we're authoring our response to circumstance through the filters we choose. From sleep-deprived annoyance to recognizing we're holding the pen.

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