Greetings, I feel like a broken record. Life happens and I struggle to get this newsletter and my podcast out. I have to keep remembering to gentler to myself. Plus, sometimes it feels like I am doing too much. In my last newsletter, I had just started reading Oliver Burkeman’s

Greetings Over the last few years, I have spent a lot of time looking at ‘time’ and how I use it. And, over time, I have taken a slightly different approach, tried to evolve out of the ‘grind’ or ‘hustle’ lifestyle and become a bit more deliberate with what I focus on, including, but beyond, work. In this process, I have gone through countless productivity books, applying various lessons and […]

Greetings, I grew up on the Terminator movies and submerged myself in the Matrix movies in my twenties. The idea of a dystopian future where machines/computers ran the world seemed both close and far away. I still remember the time before the Internet and cellphones and PCs and laptops and the like. When I was in high school, my father’s secretary transitioned from a typewriter to an electric typewriter and […]

Greetings Let me jump straight into the seven things I thought were worth sharing There are the things that I do for me and there are the things I do for a living. I tend to share more of what I do for me, never really talking about what I do for a living. But, for once, I wrote about a gig I hosted in

Greetings, The internal debate and the self-doubt is frustrating, most times. The trying to figure out why I do what I do, from blogging (erratically) to my podcast to this newsletter and everything in-between. That said, I am grateful that I am in a position where I can continuously experiment with things while I muddle through them.

Greetings The older I become, the more birthdays become about reflection on where I am – physically, mentally and emotionally – more than anything else. Last year, I turned 50 which is a milestone but there was little fanfare. This year I turned 51 and was reminded of my friends – pre and during the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic – who didn’t make it. While the grief still lingers, […]

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Greetings, Writing is partially an exercise in living. In living enough to have enough to write about. Yet, often, I find I have more than enough to write about, but it gets lost somewhere between thought and fingers tapping away at the keyboard. I used to write poetry with ease, churning out three to four (mediocre) poems a day. Most of them fell short of any standard but, within each […]

Greetings, Here are seven things I felt are worth sharing: A lot of what I have learned about the world, and myself, have come from books. I have written extensively about reading and the role that books have played in my life both on my site and in my book