Being Centered
Essays on attention, leadership, creativity, and building a centered life.
Lead Story
Drake’s Lawsuit Update Isn’t About Rap — It’s About Reality
A culture moment that clarifies how narratives get built, sold, and believed.
One Battle After Another made me remember why I love movies
A favorite-of-the-year review: craft, momentum, and feeling.
‘Sinners’ Is a Juke Joint, a Prayer, and a Knife With a Melody
A horror film that plays like Southern Gothic scripture.
Sinners makes history with 16 Oscar nominations
How Oscar nominations work — and what peer recognition signals.
Drake’s Lawsuit Update Isn’t About Rap — It’s About Reality
A story about brands, narrative control, and “real life” economics.
Kendrick Lamar’s ‘GNX’: Album of the Year Bid or Narrative Power Play?
A read on ambition, sequencing, and cultural leverage.
The Myth of Mansa Musa (and why the “richest man ever” story is boring)
Why the meme version flattens the real history.
Trump Says Greenland Talks Have a “Framework” and Drops Planned Europe Tariffs
Davos remarks, NATO posture, and the trade ripple effects.
What Is Trump’s “Board of Peace”? A Clear Explainer on the Davos Launch
A plain explainer with the key claims and open questions.
Shutdown Deadline Nears as House Takes Up Homeland Security Bill, With Democrats in Revolt
Where the votes are (and why the clock matters).
You Are Not Overthinking It: On Faith and Doubt
A close read on uncertainty, belief, and interior honesty.
Lucifer in Paradise Lost: The Antihero That Won’t Die
Why rebellion stays narratively seductive—even when wrong.
Good Writing Isn’t a Strategy Anymore
Craft still matters—distribution matters too. Here’s the shift.
Can Gavin Newsom win the White house?
A realistic case: strengths, liabilities, and the “California” frame.
Nick Fuentes is not dangerous. He just has a microphone.
An argument about attention, audience size, and actual power.
Assassination as Stress Test: Can Turning Point Outlive Its Founder?
A movement’s durability when the brand is the person.
Gaddafi Mirror: Liberation, Oil, and the Blood Price
What admiration misses—and what the record still forces us to face.
What Is FBA? Foundational Black Americans, Lineage Politics, and the Reparations Debate
How identity arguments turn into forms, eligibility, and law.
A short piece on scale, change, and the discipline of expansion.