Behind the Book: Don’t Live in Fear
I kept watching people I care about hit the same wall for years without trying the door. Then I looked at my own life and saw it there too. Thirty-three years, and I called it a career.
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Character DevelopmentBehind the Book: Everybody’s Prejudiced
A book that asks readers to examine their own prejudices has to go first. So the introduction is mine: what my parents taught me, what I believed for thirty years without testing it, and the club I was recruited into…
Critical ThinkingTake the Ticket
I watch a lot of traffic stop videos, and the ticket is never what got them. The ticket was a piece of paper. What happens in the twenty minutes afterward is what ruins people.
ADHDHow I Stopped Fighting My Brain: A Late AuDHD Diagnosis
For fifty years, she thought something was wrong with her brain. The real problem was that everyone's productivity advice assumed a brain like theirs, steady and controllable, when hers worked in floods and droughts. Here's what changed when she finally…
Critical ThinkingHow Writing Builds Growth and Emotional Intelligence
Writing is one of the most effective tools for personal growth, emotional intelligence, and clear thinking. Here is how putting thoughts on paper changes you.
FearDon’t Live in Fear: The Walls You Built and How to Get Past Them
The fence isn't in the yard. It's in the dog. The job you won't leave, the raise you won't ask for, the dream you filed under too late, you got shocked once,
AIThe Birth of the Augmented Human: What Goes Right When You Use AI Properly
The Death of Thinking mapped the problem. This book maps the other path, the practices that maintain cognitive capacity and what they build over time.
HabitsTurn Off the TV, Get Off Your Ass, and Do Something: Getting Your Time Back From the Screens
Four hours of TV a day, no time for what matters. Richard Lowe's guide to crossing the line from consuming to contributing.
BiasThe Only Open Seat Was Next to a Black Kid. His Name Was Sam.
Every signal my nervous system sent said do not sit there. I sat there because there was nowhere else to go. Within a week we were friends.
ConsciousnessI Got Tired of Religious Answers That Did Not Match Reality
I did not set out to write theology. I started trying to make sense of existence because the explanations I grew up with created more problems than they solved.
ADHDI Am a Polymath. What Does That Mean?
For most of my life I thought my problem was focus. It turns out there is a word for what I am, and it is not a flaw. This is the personal version of being a polymath.
AttentionBefore 2014 I Spent a Thousand Hours a Year Watching Other People’s Work
They say they are too busy to exercise, too tired to cook, too overwhelmed to read, and too stressed to see friends. Then they watch Netflix for four hours.