Seven Royal Caribbean cruises, and the hardest part was never the packing. It was figuring out how to be a person who isn’t useful for a week.

Blogging in 2026 feels about as culturally relevant as owning a fax machine. Here’s why I do it anyway, and why the reason probably isn’t what you’d expect.

The industry spent twenty years building a mythology around who belongs in technology. Most of it was never true, and the parts that were true stopped being true a long time ago.

At 55, I’ve made peace with being a guy who doesn’t fit cleanly into any category the internet has invented for people like me. That peace took longer than it should have.

After a long break from the gym, I’m back under the bar at 55 — and the thing that surprised me most wasn’t how much strength I’d lost. It was how honest the whole process is.

Tech culture has a loud minority running the microphone, and most of the people actually building things have stopped trying to compete with the volume. That’s a problem worth talking about.

Getting tattooed for the first time at 52 wasn’t about rebellion or a midlife crisis. It was about realizing the person I’d been protecting my reputation from never existed.