a library of thoughts

We vastly underestimate how much depth we actually hold. Give yourself more credit. You’re far more complex than an Instagram post of curated highlights or a Substack essay summarizing a controversial take. Sharing your life online a bit more isn’t going to put a target on your back—people are too caught up in their own lives to scrutinize yours th... See more

I couldn’t articulate it then, but something felt incredibly wrong about growing up poor. not being able to afford a single book at a book fair seems funny now, but it was devastating. being hungry. being afraid of my father…fear, abuse, and poverty make for horrible conditions for growth. I could never quite master “forgive and forget.” I remember... See more

The more money you make, the less likely you are to place ‘being a parent’ at the center of your identity. Part of this probably has to do with the fact that middle and upper-income people are more likely to understand their identity  as  their job, but even that doesn’t fully explain this stat. Instead, I’d argue that bourgeois parents

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who am I outside of my problems? riddle me that. living in crisis forms you in such a way that it is safer than the unknown….but crisis is no longer my resting place. of course I still have problems. just cried on Monday due to grief, stress, overwork…you name it. being a Black man in America will do that quite nicely.

I’m not interested in empire or wealth, I’m interested in paying my bills and spending every minute of my time on labor that brings me delight. I may never change the world, but my company makes my world—and the world of my customers—that much richer and more beautiful.