REINVENT

Maybe success isn’t doing more of what you’re already good at.

I’ve spent a lot of my life building businesses, learning technology, working in real estate and figuring out how to make things grow.

I’m proud of that work. I’m also increasingly interested in a different question: What if the next chapter isn’t about doing more, but being more intentional about what I keep doing?

THE NEXT CHAPTER

I’m not starting over.

I’m taking the parts that still matter with me: the experience, the businesses, Seattle, real estate, technology, the relationships and the curiosity.

What I’m reconsidering is how all of those things fit together and how much room they leave for everything else.

View across Tucson from the mountains with saguaros and dramatic clouds — Tucson, Arizona

WHAT I’M RECONSIDERING

Four parts of the same question.

01 WORK

What do I actually want to spend my time doing?

02 IDENTITY

Understanding myself differently, including learning later in life that I’m autistic.

03 PLACE

What moving between Seattle and Tucson is teaching me about how environment shapes life.

04 WHAT’S NEXT

Building income, flexibility and a life that isn’t entirely dependent on working more.

CONTEXT

Finding out I’m autistic changed the context.

I spent most of my life without knowing I was autistic. Finding out didn’t suddenly change who I was. It gave me a different way to understand a lot of things that had always been there.

I’m still figuring out what that means for work, relationships, energy, routines and the way I’ve built my life. I’ll probably write about some of that here too.

The goal is not a dramatic reinvention. It is a more intentional life built around the things that still matter.

WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE IN PRACTICE