“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.” There’s something almost quietly defiant about that line from Maya Angelou. Not loud. Not performative. Just steady. Because let’s be honest, defeat shows up. Regularly. Uninvited. Sometimes dressed as rejection, sometimes as loss, sometimes as the slow […]
There’s a glass of water on my nightstand right now. I will not drink it. I never drink it. And yet, every night, I place it there like I’m preparing for a very specific, very dramatic version of myself who might awaken at 3:17am, parched, reflective, possibly mid–existential […]
Somewhere in 2017, over 100 employees boarded planes for what was marketed as a “corporate retreat.” You know the type. Growth. Bonding. Vision. Probably a PowerPoint with the word synergy in it. What they got instead? A fever dream. This is what supposedly happen but recall can certainly […]
New York is on fire. Not the chaotic, sirens-in-the-distance kind. But the electric, collective heartbeat of a city that has waited. And waited. And waited. And now? The Knicks are champions. This wasn’t a story of dominance. It was a story of claw-backs. Of almosts. Of “are we […]
Steve Jobs famously said the only way to do great work is to love what you do. And listen, I both agree and would like to lovingly challenge Mr. Turtleneck. Because here’s the inconvenient truth. You don’t get a moral hall pass just because you’re not “in love” […]
Google, in its quiet algorithmic way, decided to ambush me today. “This day, years ago,” it said, like it wasn’t about to rearrange my entire nervous system before coffee. And there he was. My son, younger, mid-air, literally suspended in that impossible, physics-defying moment of childhood joy. His […]
There is something deliciously cinematic about a 21-year-old university student casually stepping in to play piano for La La Land in Concert when the scheduled pianist falls ill. I mean, of course it happened during La La Land. Of course. Life sometimes has the subtlety of a Broadway […]
There’s a particular kind of human arrogance that assumes insight belongs exclusively to us; along with taxes, existential dread, and the ability to overanalyze text messages. For a long time, scientists mostly agreed. Sure, animals could learn. They could try things, fail, try again. Trial and error. The […]
And just like that May is over. My birthday month. My personal New Year. My annual, slightly delusional belief that the universe revolves, briefly but meaningfully, around me. May, you were glorious. You showed up like a main character that was blossoming, dramatic and slightly unhinged in your […]
We tend to treat intelligence like it’s a fixed asset. Something you either have, like good hair or a tolerance for small talk, or you don’t. But I’ve been thinking. What if intelligence isn’t a possession? What if it’s a posture? What if intelligence is simply curiosity in […]
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