
The Standing Order, No. 3
What’s actually in my rotation.
Essays on attention, ambition, and the slow work of staying human.
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What’s actually in my rotation.

A notebook of lessons I’ve learned the hard way.

The machine can make every possible future feel imminent. It cannot tell me which one is mine.

I thought I was practicing patience. I may have been waiting for permission.

What my twentieth reunion revealed about friendship, memory, and the parts of a life that only make sense looking back.

What's actually in rotation for Father's Day

Golf is really the excuse. The trip is the occasion - for friendship, ritual, and time together before life turns people into names in a phone.

A first summer edit of things worth wearing, using, reading, and playing.

The advice we've all been given - be authentic, know yourself, show what's real - is no longer enough. Here's what replaces it.

On sobriety, attention, and what still pulls at me