SAM Frida

There’s a video going around. A man throws a rock at a Hawaiian monk seal.Not just any seal. One of the most endangered marine mammals on the planet. An animal so rare, so protected, so woven into the identity of these islands that Hawaiians have a name for it:...

There’s quote circulating right now from applied neuroscientist Ashley Douglas: “Every time you say yes when you mean no, you’re training your nervous system through neuroplasticity.” It stopped me cold. Not because it’s new information, exactly. Most of us know,...

There’s a graveyard of unfinished diaries in my life, not because I had nothing to say but because I had too much, and no way out. My brain is rich. Complex. Fast. It makes connections across things most people hold separately. It feels deeply, thinks widely, and...

A letter to those who serve, and those who forgot they were supposed to You applied for the job. You made the case. You stood in front of rooms full of people and told them you would fight for them, that justice mattered, that balance mattered, that they mattered....

There’s a line in a Tiny Buddha piece I read this morning that stopped me cold: “I had moved on, but I hadn’t integrated the experience. I had simply built a beautiful life on top of a broken foundation.”That hit somewhere specific. We’re so good at spackle. We...

I was watching CNN earlier when Obama called Zohran Mamdani extraordinary. The word stopped me. Because what struck me about Mamdani wasn’t polish or pedigree. It was the absence of performance. He speaks in plain English. He says what he thinks before it gets...

We have a habit of treating people like resumes. No criminal record. No red flags. Good references. Check, check, check. We scan the boxes, find them ticked in the right places, and call that due diligence. We call that knowing someone. But what if the boxes are the...