Letters, reflections and stories on resilience, discipline and change
This is a long form piece of work that I have shared before but have never sent out to my newsletter list. If you've ever wanted to build something outside of the ecosystem you currently operate in, share your thoughts, your experiences, and become more than the sum
I sat down with a friend of mine recently for a long overdue catchup. He’s good company - thoughtful, likes a beer, loves the football, runs his own business, devilishly handsome - we sure do have a lot in common. Some people need to be gently coaxed into a deeper conversation,
I am forty-three years old. I’m a writer, and a speaker, and can increasingly be filed under ‘content creator’, a phrase I feel slightly ridiculous about. I find dry, observational humour the funniest but I’ve always been fond of a dick-joke. I’ve grown very tired
There's another writer in my space, I won’t name him, but I’d be confident he’s popped up on your FYP. He does the same kind of work, in the same territory, on the same small corner of the internet. He’s very confident and articulate.
The world has never been less interested in your meaning. The structures that used to supply it - religion, community, clear social roles, and the assumption that a life well-lived followed a legible shape, have either collapsed or calcified into something most of us can't or won'
Last week I had a really fantastic meeting. An incredibly positive hour with someone I admire enormously, that gave external validation to my work here on protocol, and will hopefully lead to some exciting opportunities in the near future. To be taken seriously by someone who could actually move it
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