The Writing
Essays on living
the unbound life.
Writing on identity, freedom, integrity, and the cost of living a life that is not yours. Published since 1997.
The Seven Wonders of an Unbound Life
The Monuments You Do Not Build. The Ones You Uncover. There were seven wonders of the ancient world, and every one of...
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The Same in Every Room – Why Integrity Was Never About Being Good
Most people believe integrity is a moral quality. A measure of whether you keep your word, whether you tell the truth, whether...
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It’s Hard to Be Beautiful When You’re So Ugly
On Looksmaxxing, the Mirror We Didn't Build, and the Freedom That Optimization Can Never Buy It's hard to be beautiful when you're...
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The Great Clock Con – How the Government Steals an Hour of Your Life Every Spring, Calls It Daylight, and Expects You to Be Grateful
Every year, twice a year, the American public willingly participates in one of the oldest and most pointless civic rituals in the...
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The Costumes We Forgot We Were Wearing
Most people have never been asked who they are in a way that required a real answer. The world is extraordinarily skilled...
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I Will Not Dim Before I Am Done
There are poems that decorate language, and then there are poems that indict the soul. Dylan Thomas’ villanelle, written in 1951 as...
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UNBOUND is not an act, it’s a Standing – Choose Now
The Edge of Autonomy: Mastering Decisions Autonomy is not a slogan. It is an operating system. It is the internal governance that...
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Not Everything Yields to Hustle
There are kinds of work that cannot be forced. Wisdom does not bend to urgency. Discernment does not answer to volume. Character...
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An Atheist Christian? How can it be? (Pt 1)
If I have to be an atheist in order to be a Christian in our culture, so be it. I will not...
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Eve is more of a Jesus than Adam: typology and redemption – Reclaiming Eve pt 15
Introduction: Eve as a Christological figure Eve’s name is rarely spoken without some trace of indictment. She is remembered as the one...
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