The Burn Blog

I Gave You a Song. You Gave Me an Emoji.

...and you didn’t even listen.

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September 2025

Hot Water, Soft Fire

The song that surfaced before the sun, somewhere between stillness and surrender.

Sep 30 • 

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The Last Touch Gets All the Credit

Because the story never starts where the slide begins.

Sep 19 • 

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The Fruit Was Never the Problem

51 years. One bite. A lifetime of false assumptions undone by a soft nectarine.

Sep 16 • 

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The Door Behind the Fire

A story of fire, a bowl of water, and the first breath of spring in autumn.

Sep 13 • 

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The Curse of the Consistent One

How We Built a System That Rewards A**holes and Punishes Angels

Sep 11 • 

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Why I’ll Always Choose the Fire

A rally against the slow death of soul.

Sep 3 • 

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August 2025

“Deal” Is a Four-Letter Word

Why Every “Big Deal” Is Just Another Cheap Transaction

Aug 21 • 

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The Fulness of Not Needing

When peace isn’t subtraction but saturation

Aug 20 • 

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Saturday Night, a Dogs Fart, and the Lucerne Classic Festival

A Story About Expecting Violence and Finding Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 — often just called Rach 3.

Aug 17 • 

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June 2025

Where Scale-Ups Lose Their Soul — or Find Their Fire

You can scale systems. But you have to fight to scale soul.

Jun 28 • 

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Sunday Glow — Coming Home

Not every journey is forward. Some bring you back to yourself.

Jun 23 • 

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