Last night, I began to write out a blog where I confessed to spending a great deal of my life hidden behind a layer of uncertainty and fear; a perpetual feeling that the walls are closing in, the sky falling and the rug being pulled out from under my feet. For a variety of reasons, […]
The other day, I found myself going down a strange rabbit hole on the internet; watching Odawg skits on Youtube. For the uninformed, Odawg is a ‘hood influencer’ with nearly half a billion views on YouTube, breaking down ‘hood life’ for the average American viewer. On one of his skits, there was a scene where […]
Over the past few weeks, Atlas has turned a new leaf in his personality, intellect and autonomy. Not a day goes by where he doesn’t blurt out some new one-liner that has me laughging until I can’t. In similar fashion, not a day goes by where he doesn’t try to test the limits of doing/not […]
On my right forearm is a large tattoo of an empty hourglass; taken from the front cover of my Opa’s book The Empty Hourglass, written a few years before his death. His book was a pivotal guiding force in my life, helping me to better understand myself as a Plaat, human being and man. On […]
“Never waste a good crisis” is a quote some attribute to Winston Churchill. While Churchill may or may not be the original one to coin the term, there’s a ridiculous amount of truth in what he said. While the ‘intent’ of the quote is pertaining to the idea that there’s opportunity for personal growth/transformation in […]
For the last few years, I’ve made it a point to have ‘Soulful Sunday’ – dedicating the day to doing things that feed my soul. Sometimes this involves going to church, and other times it involves spending time with the ones I love most – or myself. While I think there’s benefit in going to […]
There’s a timeless saying in the world of real estate that’s used to describe the three things that matter most in a piece of property: “Location. Location. Location.” When I moved into a house in October of 2024, I never could have imagined the ways that moving into a home would transform my life – […]
When I was younger, I wanted a lot of things – in a very literal sense. I didn’t just look at objects as the ‘next thing to get’ as much as I viewed them as fulfilling a part of me that I felt was missing. It wasn’t just about filling a missing void, however; there […]
Ever since I was a boy, I remember feeling deeply. As an adult, I’ve discovered that age hasn’t done anything to reduce – or mute – the way that I feel, as it has with the energy I have in the morning when I get out of bed. In many ways, it’s dawning on me […]
When I worked in Silicon Valley, there was a common trend I noticed when people would introduce new companies/concepts to somebody unfamiliar; they would use existing companies to describe the concept. For example – “It’s like the Slack of Amazon and Ebay” meaning, it’s a cross-channel communication platform that allows users to have a centralized […]