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(Previously called “When Love Dies Before The Body Does” I wanted to blame something external. A child abuse and in the end, the kid (Megan) passed away…and the details that came up in the papers…the kind that lodges in you and won’t leave. I’m not going to retell it. The details aren’t the point, and … Read more
Your parents were first-time humans too — that’s the grace. What you do with the hand they dealt you is on you now — that’s the responsibility. When we were kids, our parents seem like gods to us. They know everything, they have every answer, they never fail. Then you grow up, and somewhere along … Read more
The first reason is spiritual — I’m a Christian before I’m anything else. The rest is the bill coming due in this world. Let me start where this actually starts for me — not where it’s easiest to defend in a meeting. I’m a Christian before I’m anything else, so the bedrock reason I don’t … Read more
(Previously named The Battle To Finish) There are two ways to never finish — and they look like opposites. Everyone celebrates the start. You announce the business and people cheer. You launch the thing, open the tab, pitch the idea, plant the flag. Starting feels like progress, and it photographs well. Almost nobody throws a … Read more
(Previously titled: If You Don’t Kill This Voice, It WILL Kill Your Calling and Fire) The most dangerous voice in your head isn’t wrong about your work. It’s wrong about you — and you keep believing it. There’s a voice in your head. You know which one. It doesn’t shout. It waits until you’re tired, … Read more
(Previously called “The Lie of Perfection (and the Quiet Power of Imperfect Progress)”) Perfect is the most respectable way to quit. Why I ship before it’s ready — on purpose. I know the feeling of waiting for perfect, because I lived it. For years I sat on my crypto waiting for the right time to … Read more
(Previously called “Centipede’s Dilemma) Thinking is my edge. So I had to learn exactly when to stop. There’s an old parable about a centipede who walks perfectly well — until a frog asks her which leg she moves first. She stops to think about it, and never walks again. She analyses herself into paralysis. Most … Read more
(Previously titled “God Doesn’t Need Your Money: Why Most Christians Fail at Faithful Wealth”) Let me get the cleanest part out of the way first: God doesn’t need your money. He never did. He owns everything already — “For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.” (Psalm 50:10). … Read more
Why I moved nearly everything out of an asset I couldn’t govern — and into one I could. A few years ago I sold all of my crypto at what most people would call exactly the wrong time. People who knew told me I was crazy. Some of them were right about the price. None … Read more
(Used to be titled “Crawled Into the Hospital—4 Days Of Agony Before Recovery”) I was so dehydrated that the nurses couldn’t draw my blood. It had gone too thick. That’s not a metaphor. That’s where four days of gastroenteritis put me — think food poisoning, but feral. High fever, relentless vomiting and diarrhoea at the … Read more