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Reflection
Thinking out loud, in public, without a conclusion.
The closest thing here to an essay. A reflection follows one question as far as it goes and stops when it runs out of honesty rather than when it reaches an answer.
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Pieces
9 min
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What to expect from a reflection
It will
Sit with something unresolved for longer than is comfortable.
It will not
End with three steps, a framework, or a tidy lesson.
Read it when
You want company in a question rather than a way out of it.
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Strategy
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12 Aug 26
The year I stopped keeping score
What happened to my ambition when I quit counting it.
Be
Patrick R.
11 min
04 Aug 26
On being known slowly
Fast intimacy is mostly performance. The alternative takes years.
Connect
Patrick R.
8 min
27 Jul 26
What I owe the town I left
Leaving is a decision you keep making for decades.
Give
Patrick R.
10 min
19 Jul 26
The unfinished piano
Nine years of scales and no recital. Still worth it.
Create
Patrick R.
7 min
08 Jul 26
Everywhere is somewhere to somebody
What tourism taught me about my own street.
Explore
Patrick R.
9 min
30 Jun 26
Waiting is not wasting
Three months between the diagnosis and the answer.
Be
Patrick R.
12 min
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