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Community isn’t something that just happens – it’s something you tend to, like a garden.

It’s showing up when you said you would.

It’s remembering the small details someone mentioned last time.

It’s creating spaces where people feel seen, heard, and welcome.

It isn’t about grand gestures, but rather the quiet consistency of care.

I sometimes feel that I don’t have enough completed. 

And, I believe there is a highly probable reason behind my lack of completed work – an inability to maintain consistent motivation for any given project. 

I have no trouble simply expressing my thoughts and ideas. Switching between projects. Spewing forth crazy scenarios or out of the box thinking. 

However, the challenge I face lies in actually completing something. 

This has turned out to be an insidious issue of mine. 

Perfectionism is a sneaky form of procrastination. Sometimes “good, enough” – as Seth Godin puts it – isn’t settling, it’s shipping.

It’s choosing to let something exist in the world, imperfect but real, rather than keeping it forever in the realm of “almost ready.”

Because here’s the thing: most of the time, done is better than perfect.

Not really about time management, but about a changing culture. A society shifting to make way for constant everything.

Streaming video, 24-hour television stations, radio (if anyone still listens), and social media.

There’s a new lost generation, and we’re watching it right now.

Where is that going to lead us?

A constant headache for me: sticking to a schedule. Even with my best efforts and careful planning, unexpected events and distractions often throw me off track.

This makes it hard to stay organized.

Try to create a routine that meets your goals, but focus so easily slips when there are competing responsibilities and unpredictability.

So, as it is with most things, start small. Scheduling is a difficult component, but it is just a tiny part of the larger picture.

Twitter (still can’t bring myself to call it X), and now Facebook. Letting go of social responsibility to omit fact-checking. But why?

Social media platforms primarily generate revenue through advertising driven by user engagement. Content that goes viral — including misinformation — often creates high engagement through likes, shares, and comments. Controversial or emotionally charged content has a tendency towards virality.

While comprehensive fact-checking would require significant investment in staff, systems, and partnerships, the immediate costs of not fact-checking (such as occasional advertiser boycotts or reputational damage) have seemed to have been lower than the potential loss of engagement and ad revenue that stricter content moderation would cause.

While the financial situation could shift as regulations tighten, advertisers become more demanding about brand safety, and users grow more concerned about information quality, which doesn’t seem to be a concern. Especially given the current political climate.

Your mind is a free-flowing map.

Think of it as a country, and it has these different places all over it. And frequently, new places spring into existence.

If you’re trying to tame it – trying to map it – it matters how you do it.

Lest your mind gets away from you. The land expands into areas that you aren’t even familiar with. 

Heard this story, which I just can’t seem to shake. It’s about a deer, who smelled something divine, and spent the rest of its life looking – searching for it.

As it lay down to breathe its last, its horn pierced its stomach, and the divine smell filled the air. What it had been seeking for so long was inside of it the entire time.

And what if that is true for everyone?

Openness feels unnatural to some. However, it should be the prevailing state.

In fact, we are born into this world embracing openness. It is only in growing up that we learn to close off.

What people have to say can be drowned out by how they say it.

Similarly, not even how they say it, but what they’ve said about other things, can be sufficient to cause deafness in their listeners.

Being mindful of this when communicating is imperative, though challenging at times.