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Surface Tension is a carefully researched, slowly brewed, story-driven weekly newsletter of connected insights for anyone trying to understand themselves better, make wiser choices to build a fulfilling life.
Each issue begins with research, moves through a stack of note cards, and gets shaped on a typewriter before it reaches your inbox.
The main topics that I write about are: career clarity, personal growth, and decision-making.
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Being close to people who challenge your idea of “good enough,” and still want the best for you, will inevitably pull you toward a better version of yourself.
Any creative work often begins selfishly, but it only becomes truly meaningful when you sense the right transition point between making it for yourself and making it for others.
We're each disposed toward some set of skills. But some of us have a harder time finding ours. And part of why that happens isn't always about the person. Sometimes it's about the setting in which the person is being judged.
The real mistake is to think that the all-in solution to all the tradeoffs life throws at you is courage, when very often that is just one end of a spectrum, and the best possible outcome lives somewhere in the middle.
