Being open and authentic in a world that is still afraid of being real. — For the past two years, I have been quiet. Emotionally constipated. Verbally shut off and shut out. Ever since I left my corporate job that was falsely “safe” and slightly “cushiony”, I have been living as a cashflow negative (I will never use the word broke because of the meaning…

“When somebody says something bad about you, it is not only just the lens that they are looking through, and it is not only the person what you’ve allowed them to see, but it is literally just .00001% of the actual population of what one person thinks about a distorted…

Delightfully examining the journey of the backbone, soul and spirit of “beatmaking”. — I haven’t written here in a while, and that’s mainly because I have been in such a reflective period during a very big and emotional transition of my life. Moving from the demands of the Tech field (UX to be exact) into graduate school and taking a pause away from…

My observation on how digital communication is destroying our lives. — I recently had a very disheartening argument about, what I would call, a small misunderstand based off of an action I did in order to protect my heart from the trauma I’ve experienced in the past, but was seen as an abandonment and personal attack. I have always had a…

I have been struggling with this concept for a while lately. There have been so much text and conversation around the issue of being “normal” doesn’t change the world. …

I have been googling how I feel to find the answers that yell in my head such as “Who am I?”, and “Why am I here”, and “What’s my purpose?”, …

Tackling the subject that a lot of us don’t really like to discuss, but we don’t have a choice anymore. — Today I got a message from a friend to check out an article from katie zhu about what was the new issue regarding Snapchat filters and a call to ban the application because of some filters just going “too far”. I usually tend to stay away from or talking about…

People and their comments. — This was a comment I saw on one of my videos on a talk I gave at the Rails conference in Kansas City, MO. I promised myself that I would never read comments but I read that one and instead of my normal rage and focusing on just how negative…

Those that leave you feeling worse when they’re around or even in your text messages. — You know who they are, the people that seem to take energy from you with their uncompromising requests. Their inability to do things for you without some sort of expectation of it being returned. Or the attention seekers that seem to “cry wolf” all he time, and we expend so…