Found Myself In It.
Last week I told you how projects die in the middle. How you maintain confusion instead of driving clarity. How the tell is simple: you cannot answer “What is this for?” in one sentence. I told you to run the…
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The 10-minute trade.
This drives people insane. “Why not just use an app?” I picked up brown A5 paper and clear plastic sleeves this week. I’m making custom D&D spell cards. Written by hand. Updated every session based on what actually happened at…
The Game I Never Planned at 55
I did not plan to design a card game at 55. Born in the fifth month, I spent years playing poker for a living. In college, I played a trick game almost nightly with a friend who never let the…
Most Things Don’t Fail. They Fade.
You know that project you keep defending? The one you cannot quite explain anymore? The one where every decision feels tactical but nothing feels clear? You are in the middle. And the middle is where most things die. In 2020…
The Queen Has Spoken
I genuinely didn’t think I’d pull this off. A few months back, I started messing with a standard deck. Moving pieces around in my head. Testing mechanics that felt half-broken at first. Then something clicked. Something I hadn’t seen before…
Engage b/c You Mean It
How To Engage Like You Mean It Everyone says “build in public.” Almost no one shows you what that looks like when you’re staring at someone else’s work and wondering if you have anything real to add. Here’s the move.…
Southern Draw Jacobs Ladder
Restack, Like and Watch the video. Let’s build up the community and break all records for viewership this year. Community First A message to all, you don’t have to be a cigar smoker to be a part of the community.…
We Feared the Wrong Thing (Again)
The digital world spent three years convinced that JPEGs were the future of value. Bored apes. Digital receipts on a blockchain. We were told this was a revolution in ownership and scarcity. That cycle collapsed. Now everyone’s skeptical. And when…
Defeated by 7 AM
Snow creates a specific kind of silence you cannot find where I live. I’m in a quiet white village in the mountains of Spain, where the air smells like stone and salt and the mornings stretch long before the world…
Smoke ‘Em If You Can Find ‘Em.
This week absolutely flew by. Blink and it’s already the weekend. I finished this up Friday night instead of our usual Friday morning drop. What’s Dropping Cavalier Genève x Fox just did a golf thing: the WM 2026. 7×47 Churchill,…