Essay · Argument
The “Soft Soccer” Delusion
Strip away the refereeing optics and the missing pads, and the world’s most popular sport turns out to be one of the most metabolically brutal ever played.
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Building evergreen engines of health, wealth, and hope for humanity.
Built to last, and to compound — quietly, and for the long run.
Simple thinking, uncommon angles.
00The whole
A whole person
Not one thing, but many — held together. The work is only one of the rooms.
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Purpose
health, wealth and hope — for humanity
Health · Wealth · Hope
The Work
engines being built
M&S · Intermed · …and more
Beliefs
how I try to act
Good people win · A duty to impact · A rising tide
People
who the days are shared with
Family & friends · Comrades · Communities
Connection
what the reaching is for
With self · With people · With God
01The Work
Two engines
Not a résumé — the two rooms where most of the building happens, and what they're meant to serve.
And a longer, quieter list — community capital, STEM education, coaching youth and adult sports, and more.
02Writing
Selected writing
A few things worth your time — and a long tail of notes, letters, and drafts behind them.
Essay · Argument
Aggarwal’s Law of Revirting
We do not advance to the virtual, we revert to it. Given time the copy becomes the original, and reality is left auditioning for its own part.
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Against Process, For Frameworks
Telling a smart, creative person what to do and how to do it is an insult, and it is received as one. A framework hands over what its author learned and gets out of the way: fishing, not fish.
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Leave No Doubt
Seventeen days after West Virginia lost its coach, an interim named Bill Stewart stood in a locker room in Arizona and asked for three things. The speech still gives me chills. Then his team beat Oklahoma by twenty.
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Wherever You May Be
It's a great day to be a Mountaineer, wherever you may be. The happiest sentence in West Virginia and the saddest, in the same breath: the man who says it, the nights he said it, and why the last four words hurt.
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Without Worrying About the Consequences
My father told me to say and do whatever I need and want, without worrying about the consequences. The most dangerous advice I have ever been given, and the best. It is not for everyone. It is for good people, who are the only ones not already taking it.
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Posts & notes
Where I think out loud — on AI, care, building, and the things worth keeping.
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Community impact, give local — Morgantown, WV
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