This notebook has become too useful to keep private.
You’ve been consuming, thinking, and quietly building for years. You know things. You just haven’t put them anywhere yet.
I hadn’t either, until I did. Every week for the past several months, I’ve published what the notebook has been teaching me.
Some weeks the lesson is sharp. Some weeks it’s just a question I haven’t answered yet. Both go up.
I’m not writing from the summit. I’m writing from the trail. Someone who has done enough of the climb to turn around and point at a loose rock, the one I just tripped on, so you don’t have to.
A few friends who have known me a long time have, generously and occasionally, called me Yoda or Socrates.
The first version of this page led with that. It shouldn’t have.
Those are kindnesses earned over decades, not introductions you hand a stranger. I’ll take the nod from the people who gave it. I’ll keep doing the work that might, one day, deserve it.
None of this exists in a vacuum.
I sit with my advisors, some living, some not, most of whom have never heard of me, who have been passing wisdom forward for centuries.
I wouldn’t be who I am had those people not chosen to share what they knew. If they had stayed in the shadows, I wouldn’t be standing where I am.
That’s not a debt you repay. It’s a baton you carry.
At some point, staying in the shadows becomes its own kind of hoarding. So I stepped into the arena.
They didn’t wait until they had all the answers. Neither will I.
Most of what’s in this notebook came from other people who didn’t keep their notes private. I’m not keeping mine private either.
Stop hoarding what you know.
If you’re ready to make the turn from student to contributor, you’re in the right place.
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