Field Notes
Field notes from the crossing.
Dispatches from my own messy middle — written from inside it, not after. Not lessons from the far bank. Just honest notes from the walk across, sent while I’m still making it.
- 5 min
I Open Myself→
I'm in Japan for a class called Personality Cultivation. It isn't really about personality types. By the third day it had walked me back through my childhood, my move to the US at eleven, and the one gift I spent most of my life trying to perform my way around.
- japan
- personality-cultivation
- identity
- purpose
- 6 min
Change Is Not Transition→
I spent years rushing the inner work because I mistook the calendar event for the actual crossing — and it cost me.
- transition
- william-bridges
- neutral-zone
- 5 min
Courage Is Just Staying→
For years I waited for the fear to pass before I moved — until I learned that courage isn't the absence of fear, it's the willingness to stay in the not-knowing.
- courage
- fear
- chief-courage-officer
- 6 min
Automate the Mundane, Never the Meaning→
I use AI to clear the friction out of my days — not to skip the inner work, but to make room for it, and for the one thing only I can do.
- ai
- meaning
- tools
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New notes, sent from the middle.
When I write a new field note, I send it out as a letter. No hype, no schedule it has to keep — just an honest dispatch when I’ve got something worth saying. Unsubscribe anytime.