As someone who loves to read, people who have expressed their ideas well have impacted me immensely. Cal Newport, Jocko Willink, Ayn Rand, to name a few.

I believe writing is the most important skill, especially if you care about impacting people like you — and who else can I speak to?

I want to get better at writing. I’m O.K. at it, and I’m not O.K. with that. I have years of improvement in front of me.

So, I’m taking away the images and the fancy layout this site previously had. This blog will be raw text. Judge my ideas, their expression, their clarity. Help me refine them. Criticize.

As badass as Jocko Willink is, you know what he studied in college?

English.

Hard to think of a better choice.