SAM Frida

Consider the donkey. For generations, people have dismissed these animals as stubborn, slow, or simply not very smart. Cartoons, stories, and old sayings prop up the myth. Yet science and real experience show a different picture: donkeys are incredibly thoughtful,...

Saw this quote from Bayard Rustin today: “To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.” It stopped me in my tracks. I’m not trying to preach or teach here, just thinking out loud. We all say we want honesty, from politics to friendships. But I catch myself...

The way I see it, the obsession with instant gratification doesn’t just come from end-users. It’s baked into the registrars and hostinga companies themselves. Everywhere you look, there’s a race to pack in more features, slap on new pricing tiers, and throw layers of...

Ever notice how much of life is a play, with everyone reading from a script nobody actually believes in? We stand in line to fill out forms nobody reads. We sit in meetings to discuss things everybody already decided. We say “let’s circle back” when what we mean is...

Watching Chief of War on Apple TV shifted something in me. It’s more than a story about the Hawaiian Islands—it’s a reminder of what integrity and moral compass look like when they live inside a people, not inside written laws. The Hawaiians didn’t need a rulebook to...

Culture. Expectations. Diagnoses written in ink that never quite fit. Sometimes a single human being is pressed into shapes they never chose—called anxious, depressed, difficult, sensitive—when perhaps they were simply wired differently, perhaps autistic, perhaps just...