a collection of thoughts on things i find interesting, challenges i’m facing, and what i’m learning.

• 2025-10-29 — fomties
• 2025-10-21 — huh, so what is this
• 2025-10-20 — my story
• 2025-10-20 — hey, i'm ryan
• 2025-09-05 — lesson from airbnb's origin story
• 2025-09-05 — buy what is best available now and you can always swap out later
• 2025-09-05 — analogy from basketball
• 2025-09-03 — when we focus on amplifying differences, it reinforces spotlight syndrome
• 2025-09-03 — vietnamese coffee + baileys
• 2025-09-03 — values and goals i live by
• 2025-09-03 — there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. the architects plan everything ahead of time… the gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it
• 2025-09-03 — systems over templates
• 2025-09-03 — sustaining a healthy habit for a longer term instead of just forcing a habit
• 2025-09-03 — spending time in preparation to have smooth work
• 2025-09-03 — seaweed chicken + porridge + pork belly
• 2025-09-03 — rule of 3 losses
• 2025-09-03 — riddle of two paths
• 2025-09-03 — over explaining is better than under explaining
• 2025-09-03 — notemaking process to publish
• 2025-09-03 — note templates for templater
• 2025-09-03 — noma framework
• 2025-09-03 — multiple tools, single system
• 2025-09-03 — help your uncle Jack off the horse or help your uncle jack off a horse
• 2025-09-03 — haircut with zack
• 2025-09-03 — food coma after lunch are the worst
• 2025-09-03 — daily review routine
• 2025-09-03 — curiosity makes the heart yearn
• 2025-09-03 — creative constraints
• 2025-09-03 — clusters cause tension, and tension is required for resolution
• 2025-09-03 — be vanilla
• 2025-09-03 — architects vs gardeners in interpersonal relationships
• 2025-09-03 — app idea that i have (meetwhere)
• 2025-09-03 — aesthetic is a creative constraint
• 2025-09-03 — a place to brainstorm, a place to create and a place to publish
• 2025-09-03 — 2 cor 5v7
• 2025-09-02 — your video has to look good with the sound off, and sound good with the visuals off
• 2025-09-02 — you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
• 2025-09-02 — what you want and don't want to do in the moment is not important, what's important is making what you're assigned successful... then you get options
• 2025-09-02 — 3-2-1 content system
• 2025-09-02 — digital garden
• 2025-08-12 — now page