I am awful at asking for help. It feels like weakness to me: if I have to ask for help, it means there’s something I don’t know, and if there’s something I don’t know, it means I am inadequate–as a leader, as a father, as a mentor and example and as someone others consider smart. […]
I’ve been away for a while. Away from this site because my other priorities seemed more important, more pressing. Away from writing in general, because it’s hard and time-consuming and I didn’t feel like my writing was really accomplishing anything, in spite of what my friends told me. So I bent my energy toward my […]