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The books that carried me through 2025
How fiction, history, and presence shaped a difficult and good year
Dec 26, 2025
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John Paul Hernandez
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The discipline of not acting
Why knowing when to pause matters more than knowing what to do
Dec 19, 2025
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John Paul Hernandez
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Jekyll & Hyde was never about a monster. It was about us
How performance, social pressure, and algorithms split us into the selves we show and the selves we hide
Dec 12, 2025
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Why great ideas often come from the wrong people
How amateurs, outsiders, and the simply curious expand what experts miss
Dec 5, 2025
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John Paul Hernandez
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November 2025
How I like my coffee
A meditation on taste, time, and small descents
Nov 29, 2025
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John Paul Hernandez
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What a twenty-one-hour outage taught me about panic
And why modern "connection" produces disconnection
Nov 21, 2025
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John Paul Hernandez
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The math of missing
Why missing your shot is part of the equation
Nov 14, 2025
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The gift of ignorance
When we admit we don’t know, life expands in surprising ways
Nov 7, 2025
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October 2025
The strange history and quiet wisdom of Spanish moss
How an unruly plant surprisingly thrives
Oct 31, 2025
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The Faustian bargain of AI
What we risk when we outsource thinking
Oct 24, 2025
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Ugly pumpkins
And the cost of perfection
Oct 17, 2025
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John Paul Hernandez
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Going analog
Buttons, knobs, and how purposeful aesthetics create meaningful experiences
Oct 10, 2025
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