Author: TTF

  • I am my last client. The structure and methods I used to help people grow are not lost on me. I’m not some sage that sits at the top of life, having figured it out, who will spend my days…

  • I’ve been doing this thing where I delegate tasks to people. In my mind, I know exactly what I’m doing: “Here, YOU handle this piece.” But I’ve repeatedly learned that it’s not having the effect I think it does. Hang…

    WTF! You can’t read my mind
  • I’ve spent most of my adult life navigating a very specific kind of internal contradiction. If you met me on a Tuesday afternoon in a professional setting, you’d see a grounded, composed mid-40s leader. The guy who manages teams, teaches…

  • Sometime during the post-COVID housing crisis, I got the wild idea to quit my job and become a life coach. I had been kicking myself since 2014 to take a real risk. One day at work, a simple thought hit…

    I decided to stop asking “What if”
  • Today, on a whim, I thought about blogging and came across this old blog of mine. Me and a friend came up with the name one night as we were venting and joking about how messed up life can be.…

    Reflections
  • Here in America… I really do want to leave. Not because other places aren’t racist but precisely because if you can tolerate it here, you can tolerate it anywhere. I’m not going to write another post on racism. I’m going…

  • I wrote this letter to a company. I don’t expect anything from it. But I figured why the hell not? Begin: I have coveted your products for a long time. Often referring others but never pulling the trigger myself because…

  • So last week officers in Atlanta killed a man by the name of Rayshard Brooks. They say they were responding to a DUI and that Rayshard was asleep in his vehicle in a Wendy’s drive through. That’s pretty drunk! Here’s…

  • The first official TTF entry happens to come directly from the workplace. Imagine that. So grab a pop, or a soda, or a soda pop, or a coke, or a beer. Pull up a chair. The setup I drive a…

  • Every so many weeks my best friend and I get together to hang out. It’s not like most bros: there’s no beer and there’s no partying in the typical sense. It’s just me and him, some food, maybe a movie or…