Category: The 100% Policy
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The Last Quarter
What happens when you stop planning for an abstract future and realize you’re staring down the last quarter of your life? A raw declaration on the 1,000-day journey, grad school, moving with intention, and finally putting the tools down to get home.
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The Foundation: Rebuilding with the Four Pillars
How do you build a life that lasts? After navigating the “hard years” of 2012 and 2020, I’ve defined four essential pillars—The 100% Policy, Option C, The Art of Moving Slowly, and The Audacity of Potential—that now guide every decision I make. This is the blueprint for rebuilding with intention.
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The Patrick Bateman Problem: A 90s Reflection
Could a sequel to American Psycho capture the shifting identity of the 90s? From the grit of the grunge movement to the hollow consumerism of Patrick Bateman, I explore why transposing this iconic sociopath into the late 90s or early 2000s would be the ultimate existential crisis—and why he stands…
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Thanos Was Right: An Unsolicited Management Review.
Was Thanos actually the ultimate misunderstood visionary, or just a genocidal middle manager with a broken resource management strategy? In today’s post, I’m taking a deep, tongue-in-cheek dive into why the MCU’s Mad Titan might have had a point about ecological sustainability—and why his version of ‘Option C’ is one…
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The South Carolina Era
Moving away to ‘start over’ is a romantic fantasy, but what happens when the reality hits? Building on this morning’s reflection about the appeal of a clean slate, I’m digging into my own ‘South Carolina era’—the highs, the gut-wrenching lows, and the hard-earned lessons I learned about choosing yourself when…
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The Art of Moving Slowly: A Field Report on Balancing Impulse and Perseverance
Moving slowly doesn’t mean standing still. Rebuilding Rob explores the balance between impulse control and perseverance, offering a practical field guide to maintaining momentum in relationships, career goals, and daily life. Learn how to stop forcing results and start building with intention
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When the Negative Takes Hold: The 100% Policy for the Mind
Not all negative thoughts are created equal. I break down how I use the ‘100% Policy’ to distinguish between daily noise and life-altering signals.
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The flickering fluorescent light bulb
Navigating my mother’s dementia and her lifelong, unaddressed anxiety is like trying to thread two spinning needles at once—you’re bound to miss one. After a morning where the ‘flickering lightbulb’ of her memory met a brutal escalation of her anxiety, I’ve realized that boundaries aren’t optional. I’m sharing the story…
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The Art of Not Blinking: Why Ukraine’s Fight is My Own
Why does the Ukrainian struggle inspire me? From a TV actor to a wartime president, here is how Zelenskyy’s audacity reshaped my perspective on perseverance.
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The Audacity to Feel Everything
We are conditioned to believe that happiness is the default human setting, but what if that’s the biggest myth of all? In this post, I explore why happiness is actually meaningless without the counterweight of our ‘negative’ emotions—heartache, frustration, and the terrifying, electric risk of the unknown. From an unexpected…