Ferd’s Core Human Fracture of Ego vs Healing. Ferd’s steely blue eyes pierced the Teams filters with venom. He had been accused of not wanting a project to succeed, of merely earning his salary while sitting all day. I could…
If you have to, use the occasional ‘fuck’ not as filler, but as a precision tool, not for edge, but for breaking walls or landing emotional weight. Swearing is punctuation, used sparingly. It’s not the content, it’s the impact. Is…
The weekend spiral of depression often crashes hardest on Sunday morning. That’s when the illusion of freedom fades. The high, the excitement, the hype of TGIF fades. Friday, and even Saturday are all but forgotten. Already you are slipping back…
You’re in an elevator. Boss turns: “Define leadership. Go.” You stammer. “Uhm… yeah well… something about vision? Inspiring others?” You just became a human LinkedIn post. Congrats, you’ve exposed leadership’s dirtiest secret: it’s often smoke and buzzwords. Here’s the truth:…
Say what you mean. Get the language for the life you want. Doing just that, by culling rotten phrases,took me a while. I was in school when the first god cast a shadow over my pathetically small worldview. “You need…
It was near the end of 2022, I experienced a terrible low-point in my life and I was ready to throw in the towel. But I had no idea about an efficient, or ideal protocol for “throwing in the towel.”…
“i want to spend New Year’s eve in a log cabin – isolated from the artificial transitioning between the last tick on the clock of the old year, and the tock of the clock that supposedly heralds the arrival of…
“The best band in the world is…” I’m not going to name one, to avoid sidetracking into debates about specific bands. The real topic here is the use of the word “best.” Is art, and creativity a competition? I never…
“Misinformation” isn’t real? Come again! A content creator, whose videos I watched a year ago claimed, “There is no such thing as misinformation, only information!” But what about information maliciously crafted to mislead, like an evil scheme designed to send…
Danish metal band Mercenary released the song “Isolation (The Loneliness in December)” in 2008, as part of their album Architect of Lies. More often than not, thoughts with profound wisdom sound better in my head and seem to become diluted…