SAM Frida
Unfiltered – ish
AI Is Too Important to Use Without Context
AI is moving so fast that it’s easy to use it without stopping to ask what it’s built on, who benefits, and what it may be costing us. That’s why I think Empire of AI by Karen Hao is such an important read. If AI is going to become one of the most important...
Some of Us Can’t Look Away
There are people in your life who see what everyone else has quietly agreed not to name. This is what it costs them. There is a certain kind of person who walks into a room and immediately registers what is slightly off. Not as a choice. Not as a personality quirk...
You Can’t Think Your Way Out of a Belief You Never Thought Your Way Into
On why intelligence alone won’t set you free — and what actually will. 5 min read “You can’t think your way out of a belief you never thought your way into.” The first time someone hears this, they pause. Then they read it again. Then something quietly shifts because...
INTEGRITY & CONTRADICTION
Walk Your Words. We spend enormous energy on how we appear. Almost none on whether that appearance is real. This is a problem we keep not solving. Here is something I think about: the version of yourself that exists when no one is watching is the only version that...
Some Things Deserve Your Absence
Freedom is not, as I once thought, the ability to go anywhere. It is the hard-won permission to stop going somewhere. Cory Allen’s line stopped me cold: some things deserve your absence, not your energy. There is a version of me that would have read that and...
Book Smart Isn’t Self Aware
There’s a particular kind of person who can cite six research papers on emotional intelligence in a single conversation. They know the frameworks. They know the vocabulary. They will absolutely tell you about their reading list. Knowing things in theory and knowing...
When Survival Becomes the Ceiling
Most loss has a name. A door that closed. A relationship that ended. A moment you can point to and say: that’s where things changed. This kind of loss doesn’t. Survival doesn’t announce itself as theft. It just asks for your attention today, and then again tomorrow,...
Presence Is the Only Proof
Going to church doesn’t make you a good person. Saying the right things doesn’t make you a good person. Being well-liked doesn’t make you good at your job. These are performances and most people can’t tell the difference. We’ve outsourced our judgment to social proof....
On Being Real
There’s a difference between honest and real. I’ve been sitting with that for a while now. Honest is something you can perform. Real isn’t. We live in a world built for optics. People construct versions of themselves so carefully, so consistently, that after a while...