Creative people have a rebellious streak. We think, feel, and act differently. We're the square pegs in round corporate holes—we're the rebels, the miscreants We challenge norms and the status quo, raising the bar 🏴☠️ We see things uniquely, bringing both opportunities and challenges 🧗♂️ I’ve…
Everyone warned me about him. I didn't listen. Figured the track record would speak for itself and, well, it did lolololol. He kept telling me, "Your brain injury makes you a liability". Weird thing to say to someone whose specs you couldn't touch. That&…
I'M BACK AND RUNNING BEYOND HAPPY! I outright reject any notion that I'm a burden or that "my brain injury makes me a liability". as a "business partner" and "Friend" told me multiple times. My worth is not up for…
My family and I are on cloud 9. Tyler, my oldest, is joining Lehi Fire! When I was in the hospital and doctor's were telling my wife "its time to say goodbye to him", my wife said my son told her "Well, I need to…
In late 2000, I stood on the edge of an airplane door, heart racing like a cheetah on Red Bull. I was a few days away from leaving for 2 years to Holland and Belgium, and I needed a last hoorah. Despite loving fast and wild adventures, skydiving was new.…
Every room I enter, I am looking. Not scanning. Not browsing. Looking. The way the faithful look for signs. Years of faces. Years of almost. Years of wrong mouth, wrong laugh,wrong silence. Then you. Not lightning. Not revelation. Just recognition, like remembering a word I didn't know…
Anxiety? Depression? Restless? No Energy? Stuck in a fog? Yes, men and women! This isn't some tale about the AI-generated water I drink daily, or the fleet of 33 cars I've amassed from passive income, all thanks to selling photos of my ears online at OnlyEars.…
Total Lego sets I’ve built: 1,298,398 Total Lego sets I’ve played with: 0. At ten years old, amidst memories of Knight Rider, A-Team, and AirWolf, a vivid memory stands out: our forever silent, "broken" lawnmowers. Drawn to our garage each day, I sought to…
It was a late night in 2012, phone blowing up with texts. "The wheels have come off the wagon!" My business partner was losing it while I was at the gym. Rushed home, jumped on the computer, and found the problem. I had configured an AWS LoadBalancer wrong.…
They chase power calling it purpose. As if the climb were the same as the cause. As if the throne would tell them who they were once they sat in it. But power doesn't answer questions. It only ends them. And purpose, real purpose, never needed a kingdom.…