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Out West and the Live Music Industry
May 1, 2024
Alright let’s get the things that most of you care about out of the way. Fav city of the travels: San Diego prob fits me the best. As a state I appreciated...
Ischemic Time
March 2, 2024
I tend to live in an “If, then” loop. It’s easier and more comfortable. There’s never an end, but you don’t know that. Kind of. It’s a form of...
An Ode to the GOAT
January 12, 2024
Everyone has different leadership styles. We can try to emulate others. Ultimately, it’s your genuine self that gets people to resonate. For myself, the word...
In Retrospect
September 29, 2023
"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them." (Link) I’m writing this on September 18th at two in the...
A Hypothetical Dynasty
September 13, 2023
It was reported on September 12th by Alex Raskin of the Daily Mail that former NFL.com columnist Jim Trotter filed an “anticipated discrimination lawsuit...
A Means to an End
August 19, 2023
This is a Joy Division reference. This feels like the end of this thing I’d been working towards since the end of 2016, and the beginning of a new phase of...
The Why
May 26, 2023
When you get the underlying reason behind what you’re doing, everything else comes easily after. When I play drums, once I get it in my mind, my body...
Because I Feel Like It
April 10, 2023
((Logging into Buttondown for the first time in a few months and JD, this new Buttondown interface is great!!!)) There’s what you feel like you should do,...
Forget
December 10, 2022
We spend most of our days living some basic moments. You wake up, go about your day, make sure your family is ok, wind down and decompress, and go to bed....
Omicron, fascism, and the US healthcare system
February 6, 2022
I wrote something awhile back that I was reflecting on this morning. In December 2019 during my first semester as a health informatics student, our final...
What to do if you test positive for COVID
December 23, 2021
When I tested positive for COVID in September '21, a lot of people helped me with information for what to do. It was pretty overwhelming especially when...
Self-sabotage and shame
December 16, 2021
So if you could find it in your heartTo give a man a second startI promise things won't end the sameShame, boatloads of shameDay after day, more of the...
Pandemic Year 2
December 7, 2021
My energy ebbs and flows a lot, or at least I’m more aware of it. Some days I feel like saying and writing something, but most days I’d rather keep to myself...
Five-Year Reflection
August 17, 2021
When I left NYC in January of 2017 and moved back to Birmingham, I actually made one of those five-year plans. Not all of these were on that plan nor did I...
Performing
June 3, 2021
We are expected to be and act a certain way. And when we act differently, we get nervous like we’re doing something wrong. It makes us anxious, wondering if...
Rewiring
May 19, 2021
2021 has been interesting to me. I’m unsure if I’m just older, but I feel different. I was having a conversation with someone about a month ago. He was...
I am mad.
January 8, 2021
I spent yesterday watching the horrifying events, and today trying to collect my thoughts. And the words that kept coming to me were that I am mad. I am mad...
This Is Sparta! San Jose State Climbs the Mountain to First Conference Championship Title
December 20, 2020
“You don’t climb a mountain in one single bound. You do it a step at a time.” – San Jose State Head Coach Brent Brennan Or alternatively, from Confucius:...
Thank God
November 8, 2020
Where were you on Saturday November 7th, 2020? What were you doing? The day is forever a memory etched in our brains. Most people I know were celebrating in...
The loss of potential and love during pandemic
July 12, 2020
If we’re friends, you know that I’m straightforward and don’t like beating around the bush. And right now, I would rather all of us know what we’re up...
COVID struggling thoughts
July 7, 2020
(This is going to be a meandering, depressing post. You’ve been warned lol). Over the last week or two, I’ve struggled a great deal. I think for a while I...
Went to drive-through lab for Coronavirus test, this is how it went
March 14, 2020
Writing this quickly/stream of thought just to get it out and share it with people. May miss some things, but hopefully this helps give people an idea of...
Changes (cont’d)
February 13, 2020
Someone asked me some weeks ago to reflect on why I am the way I am, or why our relationship is the way it is. I met her in Harlem in December 2016. I...
Changes
February 2, 2020
I have lowkey been obsessed with Megan Hellerer recently, and find a lot of comfort and solace in her writing/coaching. I read this post this morning, and...
End of 2019
December 26, 2019
I initially wanted to end my year by writing a few posts since I've learned and done a lot in 2019, and it is definitely the most productive year of my life....
First Day of School
August 14, 2019
This is my first first day of school in a physical classroom as a learner in six years. As seen from the results of a class survey, I’m feeling anxious like...
Money
July 22, 2019
I had a couple of conversations this weekend that bothered me a bit. There’s this whole thing in our first-world society where we only do things for money,...
We ran a successful 3-day family reunion for 55 people in a state no one lives in. Here’s my story.
July 8, 2019
To start, there were 44 people who did not make it to the event. I was always going to consider this successful even if only 5 people came. 55 people was a...
How I passed the PMP
June 11, 2019
I’ve received some questions about advice for passing this exam. Below is an email I sent to someone detailing my experience + an aggregate of what I found...
Living at Capacity
May 23, 2019
“You know, I wrote it like this because if I don’t do it this way, then how do I explain to people that I just ran away?” “You don’t have to.” “What, you...
Drum progress
March 13, 2019
It’s been a couple weeks since I got my drum set, and almost a week since my drum teacher came over and fixed up my mess to actually be set up properly. I...
Innovation
March 5, 2019
Humanism (regular definition) is an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist...
Thoughts of self-doubt
February 27, 2019
I’ve been a lot more anxious recently. For the last month, I haven’t had time to think about the work I was doing. Just that I had to do it. And so I was...
General thoughts on education
February 19, 2019
Something I have noticed a lot nowadays is how it’s becoming normal for people to think they don’t need an education. Or, people saying it’s better to go to...
Condo before and after
February 16, 2019
TL;DR – Here’s a link to our Airbnb. Our family bought a condo in Birmingham recently. We worked with a contractor and spent a couple months renovating it. I...
Rethinking my rethinking of project management
February 12, 2019
I was watching a Bill Hader interview with Variety in prep for season 2 of Barry. Interviewer “This sort of stink of desperation around the actors in the...
Statement of Purpose
February 6, 2019
This is in my top 3 favorite things I feel like I've ever written, so I thought I'd share. It's my personal essay I submitted to the master's program I just...
2019 Goals
January 15, 2019
It’s 3 AM on a Tuesday. I’ve been awake for an hour reading various things already. I’m awake this early because I felt awful yesterday and could not wait to...
Being less stressed and more happy in 2019
January 8, 2019
I don’t like listicles, but this ended up becoming one. I’ve spent the last year really thinking about every little thing in my daily life, and figuring out...
The Edge
December 17, 2018
I haven’t written anything in a while. I just finished a Master’s and have a lot of thoughts running through my head, so I thought I would jot things down....
Intent
November 2, 2018
Have you ever caught someone in a lie? Why was it so easy to spy? It made you mad afterwards, right? That someone would so blatantly lie right to your face,...
The Barrier to Entry
October 17, 2018
I recently asked someone what the hardest part about running a business is. Their answer? Finding good employees. I spend a lot of time thinking from an...
Letter
July 20, 2018
I always wanted to try a thing where I write a letter to my past self or a future child. This is the one I was thinking about this week. Dear past self or...
Small Wins
May 8, 2018
I’m going through this phase where I have in mind all of the long term goals I want to achieve that would create some semblance of a career and life arc I...
Inadequacy
April 12, 2018
A lot of our lives are spent trying to be good at a trade, or knowledgeable enough about things so we can help others. I think about times when people might...
The Customer is Always Right
April 7, 2018
I’d heard that phrase all of my life and had a lot of feelings about it, and then something happened yesterday that made me realize what it actually meant....
Arbitrage
March 30, 2018
I had a lightbulb go off this morning after seeing a tweet and wanted to quickly write about it. I’ve been reevaluating a lot of things in my life, and what...
John, Dave, Justin and Jowanza
March 29, 2018
I’m always fascinated by what it is that draws people to each other. We all go on our own journeys of self-discovery and figuring out what it is that we like...
Triggers
March 28, 2018
My girlfriend is coming back from Santiago, Chile after being gone for a month. I’m very excited to see her but this month has been really tumultuous on an...
Big Truth, Little Truth
March 3, 2018
I'm working on a project right now and something simple happened that made a light go off for me. Or at least, it sent my blood pressure and stress levels...
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