Like a rainbow hot dog, the simply success strategy, and growing beyond the hustle...

It’s been a busy week with two birthdays and Thanksgiving.

No time to sit down away from the chaos and the hubbub.

Until today of course…exercising my birthday prerogative for a few minutes (and yes, I know I could’ve asked a little earlier, but since it really is today, I felt it was more appropriate).

Here’s what I’ve come across this week:

BlueSky Bit - I wasn’t quite sure but tasty cute

Medium Moment - This one rule is something I’m going to apply to writing

Substack Sampling - Yes, making money is great…but at some point that can become a bit stale

Prismatic Progress:

I’ve been reading and reading and reading…

So many ideas that I’ve come across on a few philosophy YouTube channels that have given me context on everything that I’ve written about…

It all boils down to a very simple idea for me; that the truth of society and how it is structured to keep us within its confines has always been something that I felt was “off” in many ways.

I know there are so many others out there who feel the same way. All my life, I’ve played by the rules of the game, but I knew on some level that it was just that: a game. The game of “Life” doesn’t need to be something that you completely subscribe to. It’s why throughout my life that I kept one foot outside of the lines — that I moonlighted doing the things that I wanted to do — rather than the things that my parents and society expected me to do.

I can talk about how I performed my way through college, acted my way through teaching, and danced my way through engineering until I settled down and started a family because that’s how I “paid my dues” to survive.

Truth, in its many angles, is something that we are having a harder time perceiving with each passing year.

What I want to share more of is how to stay grounded while playing the game, and thrive in the system with an eye towards keeping your head above the water.

Too many of us technical introverts seem to be struggling to do that these days.

Here’s to making it happen in my 43rd year of life.