Journal

Steve Martin spent 30 years combining banjo, magic, and stand-up. He never stopped adding things that didn’t obviously belong together.

Michael Bay used a CGI Ferrari and real exploding cars. The shiny was fake. The genuine was irreplaceable.

AI can now generate infinite content from a text prompt. The only thing it can’t produce is a singular point of view.

95% of your decisions are governed by a safety profile built before age seven. Your brain doesn’t care if you’re happy. It cares if you’re safe.

A bar in the 80s had one rule: stay seated or get thrown out. Most corporate careers work the same way.

A cyclist trained for the Alps in Ontario. He was ready for the climb. The descent at 80km/h was another story entirely.

I used to row. Eight pairs of hands, inches above the water, pulling in unison. One pair wrong and everything stops.

At ten meters you double your pressure. Move too fast through career change and you break more than you were trying to fix.

A radiologist with 13 years of training. An MIT algorithm that outperformed them on mammograms. The hardest skills turned out to be the most replaceable.

You don’t need the Big Green Egg to love cooking. Connection is entirely up to you.