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Personal fire, AI as mirror, and the 3:33 AM thoughts that don't belong on LinkedIn.
Mar 15
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3 Years Outside the Time Billionare's Club
I turned 52. I did the math. I only have 86 months left that are actually mine to live.
Jun 2
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Execution Is Dead. Long Live the Dreamer.
Why the bottleneck just moved from the hand to the head.
May 18
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I Let a Stranger Hold a Blade to My Throat and It Was the Most Relaxed I've Been All Week.
Men Don't Need Meditation. They Need a Barber Named Hassad.
May 15
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No Mushrooms Required
A banker, a whirlpool, and a World Cup anthem walk into a bar.
Apr 15
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The Three Seasons of Wealth
Oct 12, 2025
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This was written with AI. So it has no value.
Jan 15
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Sunday Glow: At 35, My Startup Crashed. At 50, I’m Still Swinging.
Dec 15, 2024
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🔥 The Five Things No One Tells You About Resilience
Oct 30, 2025
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The Whirlpool at the Train Station
What happens when you stop performing and start processing.
Mar 18
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Never Call AI a Tool Again
AI is not a hammer. It’s a Stradivarius. And most people are holding it like a screwdriver.
Mar 17
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The Practice Nobody Taught Me
How I Discovered a New Way to Use AI, and Why It Matters | www.technomystic.ai
Mar 16
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Yellow Before Permission
A tree that doesn’t check the forecast.
Mar 15
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The Space In Between
Where everything that matters actually lives
Mar 13
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Veriception: The Art of Imagining the Real
You cannot imagine not imagining. You can imagine everything — even reality. And when you do, there is no gap.
Mar 7
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You Need to Be More Careless
How a LinkedIn Post at 5:30 AM Became an App, a Song, and a Music Video Before Breakfast
Feb 26
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The Loud Room and the Quiet Work
Every leader learns this eventually. Most learn it the hard way. That’s the only way it sticks.
Feb 22
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I Was Sick on Friday Night. So I Created a Grandmother Who Lives in a Server Room. And a White Paper.
The grandmother every AI is afraid of. Yours is next.
Feb 21
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Trust Is a Mountain Made of Pebbles
Every lie removes one. Every truth places one. You do the math.
Feb 20
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Two Fires - A note from Roman.
One burns. One builds. You probably need both.
Feb 18
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You’re Sitting in Everything
The water on your skin is 4 billion years old. You just never noticed.
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