New year, same me.
Often times, we start the new year with a calling to be a new person.
Someone who is stronger, or smarter, or faster. More well-read, well-rounded, more successful.
Inevitably, a month or so in, we've completely forgotten everything we wanted to be and are now stuck with who we were before. Big plans laid down at the threshold of our rhythms, patterns, systems, and obligations.
So this year, I'...
Rest is a virtue.
Since 2020, I've taken December off.
At the end of November, 2020, I ended one of my largest anchor client contracts and replaced that work with my work on this - Solo School, and the other things around it.
I signed a contract for January, closed my laptop, and parked myself on my parents' couch (we moved in with them for the holidays because we couldn't go south for the winter that year.)
I c...
What happens now?
Everything I write feels wrong.
You know what I mean?
I want to talk about why I teach the way I teach.
Why I share the things that run through my head to teach valuable lessons, because people can more easily absorb knowledge when they feel understood and connected to that knowledge than when they're instructed.
It's easier to learn from a parable of someone who thinks like you than from a tex...