THIS IS ME.

the collection of cigarette butts that have begun to accumulate outside of my apartment, as i've regrettably taken to smoking over the past several months building my new company Is this thing on? It's been a while. Matthew 18:20 says, "For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them." I've been wondering as of late, which one is it? Two or three? Similarly, I've been wondering, at which cigarette does one become a "chain smoker?" Is it the 2nd in the sequ

i learn by observing behavior, synthesizing lessons, and then applying those lessons in low-stakes, real-world contexts. it's a tried...

know the power of LOVE. i'm filled with overflowing, uncontainable love every time I think about each of the people who have offered me...

i sometimes wonder about what keeps it all together. i'm curious about the invisible hand threading the needle that binds the fibers of...

being on the outside feels so natural to me. it's not lost on me that the insider-outsider dichotomy is only a distinction of...

i love Black music, especially rap and hip-hop. as i do most weekday mornings, yesterday i spent the first couple hours of my day...

if you know, you know. it all seems, in one way or another, to flow back to this simple truth - at least for me. for as long as i can...

Oh my God, think it's the greatest day of my life So glad you arrived But the only way to survive is to go crazy Yeah, the only way to...

i used to spend most of many days trying to avoid truly being seen. not as a preoccupation, or an activity for its own sake, but more as...

my mind keeps returning to this idea lately. what's the meaning of "society" anyway? distill it down to its core essence. here's a...

what mystifies me most in life is the magic of varied perception. each moment is an infinitely-sided polygon, rotating with each of its...

in the past it hasn't taken me very long, or very much, to begin identifying closely with my ambitions, as though they somehow held the...

i used to complain to my wife about what i called, "the simulation" - my lazy shorthand for describing what to me felt like the...

caption: this is an original photograph of a summer sunrise in Edgartown, MA from earlier this summer. i want to be fine with life, no...

i've fucked up a fair amount in my 32 years on earth. i'm blessed, nothing fatal, irreversible or soul-compromising. but your basic...

caption: this is literally a picture of the courtyard where i grew up from ages 8 to 13 at the Willowtree Apartment complex on Plymouth...

it just so happens that this post has nothing to do with "drugs" in the traditional sense. it has everything to do with fear, which so...

today, i'm struggling. i had another deeply thought out piece i was looking forward to writing today. but, this is what is flowing. ...

it occurs to me that folks are either radical or agnostic. you can't be both at the same time, but over time, one can be both. ...

i'm writing this post sitting next to a mound of clothes i've purchased from Goodwill over the past 8 weeks. in fairness to...