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  1. What does coaching actually transmit?

    Jul 7, 2026

    After fifteen years of Aikido, then parkour and Art du Déplacement, I've spent a long time watching movement coaches and growing more interested in what they can and can't actually pass on. Coaches set up the conditions; the practice belongs to the student. Readiness has to be coaxed, not built. The deepest things a coach transmits are usually the ones nobody named at the time.

  2. What’s a daily blog actually for?

    Jun 30, 2026

    I started this blog in August 2011 to post a eulogy. Fifteen years and 5,000 posts later, it's a system that quietly does several jobs at once — exposing me to material I wouldn't otherwise read, forcing me to decide what's worth keeping, giving me an archive of who I used to be. The blog isn't precious. It's messy. I work with the garage door up. The live question now is whether to keep it open.

  3. What does it take to stop on purpose?

    Jun 23, 2026

    Movement culture, creator culture, work culture — most of what we celebrate is not stopping. Persist. Endure. Show up. This thread is about the other half: knowing when to stop, refusing what you could endure but shouldn't, walking away from something good because it's done. Strength of character, I've come to think, is less about what you can endure and more about what you're willing to refuse.

  4. What does presence actually take?

    Jun 16, 2026

    The tagline at the top of my site is Presence, not pursuit. This thread is what that actually means to me, after years of chasing the next thing and finding myself less present, not more. Presence isn't a state you arrive at by trying harder — trying harder is the problem. The pieces come at the same lesson from radically different angles, but the through-line is simple: notice what's already here.

  5. What can hand writing actually do?

    Jun 9, 2026

    After decades of journaling, I'm convinced hand-writing isn't a quaint preference — it's a different way of thinking. The pen slows you down. The page absorbs what your head keeps re-running. You stop having to remember things you've already worked through. It's not magic; it's just paper. The cumulative payoff is something you can't get any other way: a notebook you can rummage through and meet your earlier self mid-thought.

  6. Fasting — what I’ve actually learned

    Jun 2, 2026

    I started cutting refined carbs in 2008-ish; intermittent fasting came later. I'm still overweight. I'm not selling anything. This thread sequences the pieces I keep pointing to when someone asks what I actually think — the honest n=1 over a long timeline, including the part where the surprising lessons turned out to be about something other than food.

  7. What’s actually happening when conversation works?

    May 26, 2026

    The advice everyone gets about conversation — be warm, follow up, build rapport — doesn't describe what's actually happening when one works. After a decade of recording them, I have come to think the real exchange happens beneath the spoken one, and depth isn't a property of content but of experience. The conventional advice describes the surface; the thread is about what's actually doing the work.

  8. What does practice ask, as the body keeps changing?

    May 19, 2026

    After decades of Aikido, then Art du Déplacement I'm now in my mid-fifties — the Age of Air, after roots, fire, and water. Things that took effort don't anymore; things that didn't, do. The practice that carried me here doesn't fit, and I'm still figuring out what to do about it. This thread isn't an answer — it's a path through the question.

  9. What does writing actually do to your thinking?

    May 12, 2026

    Most people think writing captures thoughts they already have. After fifteen years of daily blogging and thousands of journal pages, I have discovered it's the opposite: most of what he thinks he thinks only exists once he writes it down. This thread is about the strange thing that happens when words go next to each other on a page — the ideas that show up only because you tried to put them there.

  10. What does making something in public for years actually take?

    May 5, 2026

    What does it take to keep making something in public, for years? After fifteen years of blogging and several long-running podcasts, Craig threads pieces around the practice of showing up. Pressfield does the heavy lifting: it's not the writing that's hard, it's the sitting down. The thread closes on the hardest skill of all — recognizing when something has quietly stopped being what you set out to make.

  11. What does picking one word a year teach you?

    Apr 28, 2026

    What does a small annual ritual reveal over thirteen years? Craig calls his yearly word-picking a cynosure — the fixed point you navigate by, the dog's-tail constellation always overhead. The cumulative practice has become as interesting as the individual words: an arc bending from simplification toward self-awareness, and now toward aspirational phrases that name what's hard to be. The practice is the point, not any year's choice.

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