Welcome to My Brain

Currently listening to: “The Dead Flag Blues” by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

It’s been an odd year. I’ve felt like I’ve been on walkabout in 2025. Business has been tough and I’m left wondering about the future. This year has been all about looking: looking for business; looking for customers; looking for answers; looking for a job; looking for spiritual guidance.

What I found to be immensely fascinating is that by being always in a state of ‘looking’ I’m much more open to reaching out to people. My walkabout this year has led me to so many people from my past -people I haven’t talked to in a decade or more – either intentionally or inadvertently. People I hadn’t thought of since high school were suddenly appearing in the flesh before me.

I was scrolling LinkedIn one day and saw an old friend of mine and former co-worker at Apple was now the CIO of Palantir, the hottest AI company on the planet. Completely gobsmacked, I messaged him on LinkedIn, expecting a 50% or less chance of getting a response. He responded. That led to a phone call and catching up.

I was leaving the house one day with my family. I pulled out of the driveway and stopped as a UPS driver was walking up from the street. He handed me a package and said “Did you go to Union High School?”

“Uh, yeah.”

Now the universe was speaking directly to me. More people popped up. Emails, texts, DMs. I had the local news on one morning during breakfast and I looked up to see someone I knew had been hit by a car on his bicycle. I sent him a message on LinkedIn wishing him a speedy recovery and he responded. As I began exploring the job market I started working my network. Texts led to phone calls with people I hadn’t spoken to in over a decade. Some people had changed dramatically. Others not a bit. It even happened in business: while digging for leads, I discovered a former co-worker (again from Apple) was now in charge of IT procurement for a large Pittsburgh business. A shot off an email and we connected after 18 years.

And the experience is still going. It feels like I’m occupying the past and present at the same time with all this happening. It’s a transcendental feeling and I hope it keeps going. I can control me reaching out to people, but so many have just materialized this year without any prompting from me that I can only conclude the universe is behind it all.

Maybe is Jung’s Synchronicity at work. This moment in time, in my life, is meant to be a nexus of past and present.

I encourage everyone to do this. Stop the “I’m too busy” in your head long enough to message someone you haven’t talked to in forever. Then do it again and again. Soon, the universe will have you reconnecting all over the place. It’s an awesome experience.

August 18, 2025