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MON Something happened today That word could sound unserious, which is exactly why I liked it. The work is serious. The stories can involve money, unfair systems, drivers losing income, customers getting trapped in policies, privacy, fraud, all sorts of things that matter. But the place where I make the work does not have to […]

SUN Something happened today Delivery work contains a lot of small choices that do not look important until they are repeated over the course of a shift. How I prepare for an order, what I check before leaving a store, or when I choose to ask a question can make a surprising difference to both […]

SAT Something happened today I liked the idea so much that when I prepared material for a local incubator lab director, I did not want a sales pitch. I wanted something more like an invitation: I invite you to walk with me on this, whenever you want to experience what it is like to be […]

FRI Something happened today The lighthouse image was never meant to be a private privilege. If I could find something that helped illuminate my own difficult moments, other people would have their own sources of guidance, sometimes very different from mine. I began thinking about what happens when those circles of light meet. I liked […]

THU Something happened today I had been talking with organizations about a new project. Volta. Ignite. CBDC. The usual language in those worlds is assistance. Support. Mentorship. Help. Programs designed to move an entrepreneur forward. But I kept resisting the frame. I was not asking for help. I was asking for an ally. That difference […]

WED Something happened today I was three minutes late. Three minutes. After the printing. The dead battery. The boost. The drive. All that internal drama about timing. Three minutes. I loved the absurdity of it. The morning could have become evidence that I am disorganized, that I always sabotage myself, that the universe was warning […]

TUE Something happened today I was still turning over the spinning coin when another image arrived. Suppose I had a second coin, similar enough to the first but not spinning, that I could hold and inspect. It would not be the very same object, yet it might help me understand the shape of the one […]

MON Something happened today I had an appointment with a local incubator lab director at Ignite. I had been up late getting material ready. I finished printing with maybe five minutes to spare. I went out to the car, turned the key, and nothing useful happened. I had left the lights on overnight. Of course […]

SUN Something happened today This became useful when projects hit snags. A plugin bug. A money problem. A policy issue. A bad day. There is a tendency, especially when you are tired, to let the problem swallow the larger journey. Everything is ruined. No. The tire is flat. Those are different statements. The dream about […]

SAT Something happened today The image of a lighthouse kept returning whenever I thought about fog, confusion and the wish to find a reliable direction. At first I imagined that I had somehow built the lighthouse by learning to look at life differently. Then I pushed back on my own metaphor. The light was not […]