Authenticity

why are you, someone with a story to tell, not expressing yourself courageously and authentically everywhere you go and attracting the exact people, conversations, and opportunities that are most aligned with your deepest and truest self?

Just before he stepped down as CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos wrote his final shareholder letter. He closed it out with a section he titled, “Differentiation is Survival and the Universe Wants You to be Typical.” He prefaced his own thoughts with a quote from The Blind Watchmaker,… Show more

On the other side of creative aliveness, there is flatness. I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately, about what happens when our worlds go flat. The dynamism we lose, the emotional urges we suppress, the original impulses we become too afraid to nurture.

On the running path recently, a song came on. It was by Eminem. His music is not my choice for ... See more

That’s my big learning of the year: understanding the way someone’s interior life translates to what they make. When I first started writing this Substack, I was possessed by the sense that I had to figure out “how to do it.” Which other Substacks do I like, which other Substacks are popular, what do they write about, how do they make it work. It’s... See more

Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different. That’s your source of power.