SAM Frida
Unfiltered – ish
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
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...
Who’s Really Paying? Tariffs, Taxes, and the Art of Making You Forget the Difference
We all know what taxes are. They’re the unglamorous reality of living in a functioning society. Your income gets taxed. Your purchases get taxed. Your property gets taxed. Nobody loves it, but most of us understand the basic logic: running a country costs money, and...
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
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
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
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...
The Unraveling Has Already Begun
This is not about politics. Stop making it about politics. That framing is keeping you in the dark, and I mean that literally. As long as you’re arguing left versus right, red versus blue, you are watching the wrong screen. You are being kept busy watching the wrong...
The Exhausting Performance of Being Fine
Most of us have mastered the answer to “How are you?” Good. Busy. Can’t complain. We deliver it smoothly, automatically, before the question has even finished landing. And the person asking exhales, relieved they don’t have to hold anything heavy today.We’ve built an...








