Inspiration

Set on Edge
“In those days people will no longer say, ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge .’" (Jeremiah 31:29, NIV)
By Mack D. Ames4 months ago in Men
I Don't Want to Find My Limits
Writing every day can’t be bad can it? What if it’s the same junk every day? Then, yeah, you’re doing something wrong. But it may be a symptom of a deeper problem. The inability to move forward, to be stuck, to generate new ideas may be a symptom of…what? I don’t know. It appears to be a symptom. Maybe due to a lack of exposure to new thinking. But then why can’t you just produce that new thinking? Why do you need to be exposed to it? So maybe it’s not so much new thinking that you need to be exposed to as it is fringe thinking. At the fringes of your own limits. You need one foot in ignorance and the other in awareness and as the momentum carries you forward, your breadth of awareness increases but so too does your breadth of ignorance because, suddenly, there are several new directions you could take toward the darkness. But it’s important to step toward the darkness and to do so while keeping one foot in the light. And you want to tread gently and with quick but not too quick pace forward. The inability to move forward, from this vantage point, begins to look less like the inability to move forward and more like pacing back and forth within the light. Staying comfortable. That’s what it means to be stuck. It’s not a lack of momentum. Its oscillating momentum. And its a symptom of fear. The fear of stepping into the darkness. Of what you might find. But the whole point of doing this is personal growth. So what you do is cast your light into the darkness and, with sufficient illumination and courage, you take the first step forward. And what do you find? Usually, even more to love. Even more beauty. Even more to be enriched by. But I should take care to note something here and remind the reader of Nietzsches’ admonition:
By The Dialectic4 months ago in Men
Story Narrative Is Betting the Farm on Audio-First Fantasy. The Math Is Tighter Than Fans Think.
Jack flipped his phone over and set it face down on the kitchen counter. The marble was cold. The phone case tapped the stone with a small, crisp sound. He twisted open a bottle of beer, and the fizz seemed too loud in the empty apartment.
By Jin4 months ago in Men
I Knew Him for Ten Years. Then I Asked for One Tiny Favor.
I had a friend named David. I'd known him for almost ten years. Last year I helped him out with something—not huge, but not nothing either. It took a fair amount of my time. Afterwards, he was extremely grateful, said he'd absolutely take me out to dinner one of these days. I didn't think much of it. We were friends, after all. Then I hit a snag myself, and I reached out to ask him for a very small favor—truly tiny, the kind of thing he could have done with barely a lift of a finger. On the phone, there was this two-second silence. And then he started telling me how swamped he was lately, how inconvenient this would be, and all the complications that might follow if he helped me out. I hung up and just sat there. The feeling was strange. Not anger. Something cold. Something that suddenly saw clearly. I realized that for ten years, I had been the one flowing toward him, and he had never once flowed toward me. I'd simply never asked, so I'd never seen it.
By Jin4 months ago in Men
The Desk Next to the Restroom: What Goldman Sachs Taught Me About Power
The first time Jack Morrison walked into the lobby at Goldman Sachs, the second hand on his pocket watch had just ticked past nine. He thought he was early. But the coffee machine on the trading floor had already cycled through three rounds, and all six desks by the windows were occupied—by people who had nailed down their spots through summer internships while he was still pulling all-nighters in business school building valuation models.
By Jin4 months ago in Men
The Biscotti on the Desk: Why Old-School Loyalty Still Outruns Supply-Chain Algorithms
Arthur Whitman set the receiver back on the cradle and let his fingers rest on the edge of the desk for two seconds. Outside the window, Ohio snow was falling on the corrugated iron roof of the stamping shop, a fine, steady hiss like sandpaper on metal. He was seventy-three years old. He could tell the rhythm on the Krauss 315-ton press was slightly off: every ninth stroke, the return lagged by maybe three-tenths of a second. It was a good machine. Shipped from Stuttgart in 1987, older than his son.
By Jin4 months ago in Men
Why Leaders Who Listen Outperform Leaders Who Talk
-- Early in my career, I worked alongside a CEO who had an extraordinary gift: he could walk into a room full of frustrated stakeholders and, within thirty minutes, have everyone aligned and moving forward. I spent years trying to figure out what he was doing differently. Was it his charisma? His authority? His strategic clarity?
By Scott Gelbard4 months ago in Men
What Entrepreneurs Get Wrong About Capital — And How to Fix It
Capital is the oxygen of a business. Too little and you suffocate. But here's what most entrepreneurs learn too late: the wrong kind of capital, taken at the wrong time, on the wrong terms, can be just as dangerous as no capital at all.
By Scott Gelbard4 months ago in Men
THE MALE EGO: THE FIRST ADDICTION
Nobody asks the question. What if the first addiction wasn’t alcohol? What if it wasn’t heroin, pornography, gambling, shopping, power, money or sex?
By THE HONED CRONE4 months ago in Men
Jordan Hidalgo: Crafting Powerful Stories Through Film and Visual Storytelling. AI-Generated.
Jordan Hidalgo directs and produces commercials, documentaries, branded content, and narrative films. His commercial clients include Lamborghini, Lexus, Captain Morgan, Chase, Purina, Bleacher Report, and the New York Jets. His short film Superstar played more than 40 festivals across the United States and picked up multiple awards and nominations along the way.
By Karen Perry4 months ago in Men
Every Dollar Had a Story
When Daniel Brooks opened his bank account one Monday morning, he felt a familiar sense of anxiety. The balance was lower than he expected.
By Farooq Hashmi4 months ago in Men
Georgian Dance in Romania. Top Story - June 2026.
I am publishing this in "Men" community because this performance is all about traditional Georgian male dance. I've been out of Tbilisi for less than half a month and am already feeling nostalgic.
By Lana V Lynx4 months ago in Men