A race you cannot name is still a race you are running.
Someone asked me where the finish line was and I did not have an answer. That was the answer.
From the work. From life.
Field
notes.
Things I've noticed, things I've built, and a few questions that stayed with me.
A few things I think
Still worth
coming back to.
I am responsible for the effort, not the outcome.
That sounds like a thing people say. It took me forty years and a lot of wreckage to actually believe it.
Fear does not leave. It just stops running things.
I cannot tell you fear has been removed from me. I can tell you it no longer has the power over me that it used to.
Be the bridge, not the solution.
The most useful thing I can usually offer is a connection, not an answer. Knowing the difference took me a long time.
Jealousy and inspiration look identical from the outside.
Someone else winning either proves it can be done or proves something is wrong with you. Same information. You pick.
Where you are from will not always be happy for you.
The people I grew up with were friends as long as I stayed level with them. The minute you try to do better, some of them become the first ones to want you smaller. That is not about you.