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Think before you touch grass.
There it sat, minding its own business, grass moving with the wind but never alone.
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December 2025
My 2025 Substack: The year I discovered Notes
I’ve currently written a total of 81 posts and 63 current drafts.
Dec 31, 2025
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Be Enough
Be poetic.
Dec 27, 2025
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Tales of Brunswick: The case of the missing ute.
The ute had been parked on the street the night before.
Dec 25, 2025
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A post about not posting
Here lies a preview of 56 drafts.
Dec 21, 2025
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I write on my phone. How uncouth of me!
If you want to be a writer, you must write on paper.
Dec 6, 2025
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November 2025
You are too fat, again.
This is what my mom would often say to me: ”You are too fat.
Nov 30, 2025
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Do you think to yourself: I wish I were dead.
When your father dies before you catch the flight to see him,
Nov 23, 2025
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Do I like to write code?
So much of being the technical person in a tech startup is just writing code, responding to emails, shuffling tickets and ranting on LinkedIn (it used…
Nov 19, 2025
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Playing catch up
I have emails to read. One thousand, six hundred and forty, to be exact. And that’s just the ones Logged into my app. I have three Discord pings. Direct…
Nov 9, 2025
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Sometimes I catch myself staring.
She stood across from me, pacing excitably.
Nov 2, 2025
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October 2025
A perfectly cromulent week with Nav
I’ve been thinking about changing up my writing.
Oct 26, 2025
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