SAM Frida

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What Happens When You Stop Waiting for a Reaction

What Happens When You Stop Waiting for a Reaction

There’s something quietly fascinating about the moment you offer a genuine apology.Not a calculated one. Not a strategic one designed to smooth things over or get something back. Just an honest acknowledgment that you got it wrong, offered directly to the person you...

You Are Not Too Sensitive. You Are Too Awake.

You Are Not Too Sensitive. You Are Too Awake.

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes not from doing too much, but from explaining yourself to people who have never once sat with their own darkness.You overthink, they say. You are too sensitive. And they say it with such confidence, such ease, as...

We Keep Fixing the Roof When the Foundation Is Cracking

We Keep Fixing the Roof When the Foundation Is Cracking

There’s something quietly heartbreaking about watching human beings move through the world carrying wounds they don’t know they have. We walk around with these invisible bruises, these deeply grooved responses to life that formed long before we had the language to...

The Human Behind the Machine: Why AI Is Only as Good as We Are

The Human Behind the Machine: Why AI Is Only as Good as We Are

There’s a researcher named Milagros Miceli who just made TIME magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in AI. She’s not building faster models or raising billion-dollar rounds. She’s doing something far more important: she’s following the human thread that...

Two Headlines. One Question

Two Headlines. One Question

Today, the Supreme Court handed down one of the most consequential rulings in recent memory. In a 6-3 decision, the court struck down President Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs, ruling that he had no legal authority to unilaterally impose them on nearly every...

Humanity Is a Birthright, Not a Privilege

Humanity Is a Birthright, Not a Privilege

There is something deeply wrong with a world that makes people feel they have to earn the right to be treated as human.I have never understood monarchy. I respect history, and I understand how power structures evolve over centuries, but at its core, the idea that one...

The People Who Show You the Moon

The People Who Show You the Moon

There will be people that tell you to stop and look at the moon. They are important.Read that again. Not the people who hand you roadmaps or climb the ladder beside you. Not the ones who show up with solutions or strategies or five-year plans. The ones who grab your...

What’s Done in the Dark

What’s Done in the Dark

There is a particular kind of disillusionment that comes slowly at first, then all at once.It starts with a seed. Something someone says offhandedly, a detail that doesn’t quite fit the image you’ve held of a person. You brush it past. You might even feel a little...