liberating

liberating lenses

A curation of frames with which to see, that may (or may not) set us free.

between optimism and cynicism: a third way

Rose-colored glasses force a happy ending. Greyscale glasses expect the worst. Both disconnect you from reality. What I found instead gave me more power over my life, not less, but it required letting go of the one thing I thought gave me control.

constraint is not a cage

I have a million ideas and want to pursue them all... and that's my biggest problem. For years, I thought keeping all my options open was freedom, but it turns out, refusing to choose hasn't been keeping me free; it's been keeping me trapped.

am I great yet?

“Greatness isn’t handed to you!” she urged from the stage, as she addressed a room full of self-proclaimed future billionaires. One thousand of them. I saw only a clip of her talk,