In early 2025, I didn’t intend to build a personal brand. I started sharing my thinking in public to document growth in motion.
I’m here to navigate what many would call “integration”, and I try not to float off into theory or sink into savior complexes.
No, I don’t share every draft, I have dozens of essays on my computer sitting unpublished.
The source is always raw and real though.
Instead of calling it “thought leadership,” maybe think of it as “thought repair”.
A private interface made public. I wanted to broadcast a signal, to find others like me.
So if you’ve ever wondered why I write, here’s it is.
Context-switching between systems, hypothesis testing, and storylines in video games teaches me something about all of them.
Writing sharpens my strategy, tests my compassion, and helps me interrupt patterns that didn’t start with me, but I am hoping some will end with me.
When people make sense of themselves and interrupt destructive patterns, they’re more productive and build cleaner systems. Cleaner systems hold more trust that scale.
This space – my website, The Human Margin, and this drawer of Notes to Self – isn’t a final format. It’s a documented journey of growth. It is a record of how I’m learning to navigate the messy edges between who I used to be, and who I’m becoming.
I don’t write to be understood. I write to understand.
And if it doesn’t help you -> walk away.
If it does,
read on.
– Narrated into note format, July 2025. In the quiet between a sick toddler’s nap and chicken noodle soup coming to a boil.
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Why I write
I write and make art, because that’s how I process the world.
In early 2025, I didn’t intend to build a personal brand. I started sharing my thinking in public to document growth in motion.
I’m here to navigate what many would call “integration”, and I try not to float off into theory or sink into savior complexes.
No, I don’t share every draft, I have dozens of essays on my computer sitting unpublished.
The source is always raw and real though.
Instead of calling it “thought leadership,” maybe think of it as “thought repair”.
A private interface made public. I wanted to broadcast a signal, to find others like me.
So if you’ve ever wondered why I write, here’s it is.
Context-switching between systems, hypothesis testing, and storylines in video games teaches me something about all of them.
Writing sharpens my strategy, tests my compassion, and helps me interrupt patterns that didn’t start with me, but I am hoping some will end with me.
When people make sense of themselves and interrupt destructive patterns, they’re more productive and build cleaner systems. Cleaner systems hold more trust that scale.
This space – my website, The Human Margin, and this drawer of Notes to Self – isn’t a final format. It’s a documented journey of growth. It is a record of how I’m learning to navigate the messy edges between who I used to be, and who I’m becoming.
I don’t write to be understood. I write to understand.
And if it doesn’t help you -> walk away.
If it does,
read on.
– Narrated into note format, July 2025. In the quiet between a sick toddler’s nap and chicken noodle soup coming to a boil.
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