A New Chapter
After almost 3 years, I’m finally done traveling. Traveling, as in it being the primary focus and mechanism of flourishing for my life. Done, as in probably permanently. Starting August, I’ll be responding to the question “where are you based?” with “Dallas”, rather than “uhhhh…”
Feels pretty crazy to say, given how important it’s been in my life for the last… 7 years? I only said it out loud for the first time a few days ago.
I’m excited about this next chapter. I think I’ll be focusing on these 3 things for a while: inner work, community building/social fabric weaving, and helping people/humanity. And maybe some shorter term software work. Unclear if “a while” will be a few years, a few decades, or rest of life.
Over the next month, I’m planning on fleshing out and crystallizing my learning as well as dropping a whole lot of gratitude, probably via writing in detail.
In the meantime, i just wanted to express a few things:
- Gratitude for the people that have been part of the journey of my life, major and minor characters alike, old friends and new
- Gratitude for my privilege, that allowed the space for this time. And the intention to try and use that privilege as well as I can
- Anxiety/hope that I can do all (or at least a bunch) of this important harvesting/reflection before I return to Dallas (on top of all the other stuff I want to do)
And some invitations! If you’ve been looking for a sign, here they are:
- I’m doing to spend all of July in Portugal, mostly Lisbon (95%+ likelihood). Come join me!!!
- If you need someone to talk to about anything, in general, please reach out. My figurative door is open. As this guy I really want to meet put it, consider me a “default friend”. I have a lot of capacity, at least for now.
- Reach out in particular if you’re thinking of making a major life change, of any sort. And particularly if you’re thinking of taking some time away from working. I think this is what I needed (but lacked) more than anything when I was quitting my job. I can’t overstate how valuable it is to have some support for a big life change, especially from people that have walked a similar path. And I can probably connect you to other wonderful people with similar/related experience, to get multiple opinions, to have a “panel of elders/mentors”, or to just find a closer “perspective fit”
- I want to do a bunch of crewing! The basic pitch is you meet with 3–5 people weekly (time boxes to a few weeks) to talk about whatever, but usually it starts with emotional support and connection building. In my relatively short time crewing, it’s been hugely valuable and rewarding as a medium for personal growth, for ideas, for opportunities, for support, for friendship, for good vibes, and all sorts of wonderful things. Let me know if you’re interested in giving it a try — the upfront commitment is just 1.5 hours a week for a few weeks, after which you’re free to call it quits with no obligation/hard feelings at all.
- Visit Jess and I in Dallas! I don’t know that much about it yet but it’s got good BBQ. I’m hoping to meet and start bringing together some cool peeps so you might get to meet them too!
Thanks for reading! More to come (hopefully)
