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I'm going to start documenting some of the many books I've read that are relevant to Notable Nation, and my take-away from them.

Kindly Inquisitors by Jonathan Rauch is phenomenal. I heard about it from Penn Jillette, who I knew as a magician and part of the TV show "Bullshit", but it turns out he's also a political thinker and libertarian.

Kindly Inquisitors is about the importance of free speech. Without free speech we cannot have free thought and without free thought we have nothing.

The i…

Just because you don't support the same candidate for president doesn't mean you can't love & respect each other.

Doug & Calvin demonstrates how it's done.

And at the end we promise to wear the baseball cap for the other team if our team loses. I already ordered by Biden cap, just in case...

Just because you don't support the same candidate for president doesn't mean you can't love & respect each other.

Rikki & Calvin demonstrates how it's done.

I experienced a  huge a-ha moment when I understood the structure and flow of the drama triangle.

There are two fundamental positions we can take in life: we can either be inside the drama triangle, and waste all of our life energy on pointless drama, or we can stand outside it as powerful creators, focused on molding our lives to be the way we want them to be.

What’s the drama triangle, you ask? Also known as the Karpman Drama Triangle, the idea comes from family therapy, transactional analys…

Lloyd is a friend and a client. He reached out to tell me he got triggered by one of my Instagram stories, which led to a private dialogue.

I asked him if he'd be willing to jump on a recorded video call to talk about this, and courageously, he said yes.

I think this was a very important and very valuable conversation, and I believe that having more conversations like this can be a huge part of helping heal the deep racial trauma in this country.

I'm grateful that Lloyd would do this work wit…

This video went out in a newsletter on Memorial Day, and I thought it was a pretty good explanation of what the plan is around here, so I wanted to share it with you here on the blog.

I shot this video to send to the email list in mid April, and figured I'd share it here for some additional context.