From fugitive to honest outsider

You’ve heard of extroverts and introverts. Enter the idea of being an otrovert…

When people ask me what my star sign is, and I say Aries, I also always say: ”You do know that this is not a thing?”

The idea that the position of distant stars on the day I was born can somehow make me similar to other people born under those same stars is just magical thinking.

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Adventure journal entry 27 – December 13, 2024

I started this online journal on January 18 this year. At the time, I intended to write a post once a week.

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Adventure journal entry 26 – November 18, 2024

Some lessons learned in the last while:

One: networking doesn’t have to be a big production. I went to a big conference but kept my expectations small. I attended the sessions I was interested in, identified the speakers ahead of time and followed them, or connected with them on LinkedIn. I approached one speaker who I thought it might be good to do some writing for. And wandered around learning and listening. That’s it, and that was enough.

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Adventure journal entry 25 – November 1, 2024

I hadn’t been aware it’s been over a month since I wrote anything here.

So what have I been doing? Mainly, I’ve been hard at work on planning the 2024/2025 year – there’s a lot about that over at Safe Hands.

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