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I spent years chasing everything (countries, careers, experiences) convinced that was the path to happiness. It wasn't. Here's what actually changed everything.

You Choose Your Reality

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What happens when one removes sentience from a sentient species?

Two Rooms

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The Case for Scope 3 Emissions

The digital economy treats human attention as a raw material to be mined without limit. However, this extraction produces a specific, harmful byproduct: it breaks our focus, fractures shared reality, and wears down the patience required for moral reasoning. Unlike physical pollution, which damages the air or water, this cognitive waste damages our ability to think. While corporations are…

The Case for Scope 3 Emissions

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The Lizard People

(And Why We Are Creating Them) Lizard People. It is the label commonly tossed around Silicon Valley backrooms to describe a specific breed of colleague: those devoid of human consideration, understanding, or empathy. In lay terms, socio- and psychopaths. In our terms, the architects of the modern world. While the “Lizard Person” is a metaphor (lest we veer into David Icke conspiracy…

The Lizard People

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Stop Asking AI Stupid Questions.  

Let’s be brutally honest. Most companies are getting AI wrong. They’re spending millions on a new technology and getting… faster spreadsheets? More polite chatbots? Marginally better marketing? The initial hype is clearly dead, and for many leaders, the ROI is looking dangerously thin. Why? Because we’re asking it stupid questions. We are treating the most powerful perceptual tool ever…

Stop Asking AI Stupid Questions.  

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Our Generation's Blind Spot

I wanted to touch on a subject that can be sensitive, but important and increasingly relevant: Emotional intelligence is not the same as emotional vulnerability. Music has been a large presence in my life lately, so to kick things off, here’s an analogy I find relevant: A classically trained musician can read the most complex sheet music. They understand theory, harmony, and can execute a…

Our Generation's Blind Spot

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I Traded My 5-Year Plan for a Coffee and Found My Mentors: An Astronaut, a CEO, and a Barista

My life used to be a fortress built of rigid societal expectations. Every goal was a brick, every KPI a layer of mortar. I was the architect, the builder, and the nervous sentry, agonizing over every milestone on a strategic roadmap designed by societal expectation, not by me. Trying to de-risk a future I couldn’t predict and calculating the opportunity cost of every connection I missed. My…