Purpose & Personal Growth

March 26, 2025/Work, Ambition & Unemployment/6 min read

Reflections from Japan, Part One: Searching for Peace & Simplicity In An Unemployed World

February 16, 2021/Mental Health & Self-Worth/6 min read

Being Honest With Ourselves

June 6, 2016/Grief & Mortality/4 min read

The Illusion of Infinity

July 20, 2026/Work, Ambition & Unemployment/7 min read

How Do You Stay Ambitious When Work Stops Feeling Stable?

Career instability does not have to make you stop caring about your work. It may mean building a version of ambition that no single employer can take away.

July 13, 2026/Purpose & Personal Growth/5 min read

You’re Not Behind. The Timeline Was Built for a Different Time.

Feeling behind does not always mean you made the wrong choices. Sometimes it means you are measuring your life against a timeline built for a world that no longer exists.

April 3, 2025/Work, Ambition & Unemployment/5 min read

Reflections from Japan, Part Two: The Beauty & Horrors of Timing, Effort, and Building Legacy

Another week back in 'real life' and I have to admit, there's been good and bad days since posting part one last week. Despite going through unemployment before, I can't say that I ever…

March 26, 2025/Work, Ambition & Unemployment/6 min read

Reflections from Japan, Part One: Searching for Peace & Simplicity In An Unemployed World

So, I'm back on the job market again. This will be the third time I have been looking for a new role since 2022, and as much as this has bruised my ego and made me think I'm the worst…

May 1, 2024/Purpose & Personal Growth/3 min read

Q&A - May 1 2024

Looks like I lied back in February when I said that I would try to write more; as I haven't sat and typed words on this blog in almost 3 months. Well, rather than dwell on this, I figured…

January 22, 2023/Purpose & Personal Growth/5 min read

Paris Thoughts vol. 2

Continuing from my previous posthttps://viewsfromamaninthe6ix.wordpress.com/2023/01/15/paris-thoughts-vol-1/, here are some ramblings from having the time to self-reflect on how 2022…

December 13, 2022/Purpose & Personal Growth/6 min read

Tyrell Wrapped: 2022 in Review

If I had to describe this year in a sentence? An absolute whirlwind of emotions, lessons, and building blocks for what I think might just be a pretty exciting future ahead. I've discussed…

September 16, 2022/Life Notes/10 min read

6 Years in Los Angeles

Why hello there. I know it's been two months since I last wrote anything, and do I ever have some updates... but those will come in time. Instead, I wanted to write a reflection piece…

January 4, 2022/Purpose & Personal Growth/6 min read

Sticking To Your Goals

So, it's the time of year again when most people are setting up resolutions that they will quickly give up a few weeks later. We've all done it. The new year comes around, we have this…

March 26, 2021/Purpose & Personal Growth/9 min read

Letter To My Younger Self, part two

You may be asking, where the heck is part one? Well... I wrote it many many years ago herehttps://viewsfromamaninthe6ix.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/a-letter-to-my-younger-self/. I figured it…

February 16, 2021/Mental Health & Self-Worth/6 min read

Being Honest With Ourselves

I've been thinking about this question for a little while now... so let me ask: why is it so hard for us to be honest with ourselves about what we want? A lot of us lie to ourselves in…

January 9, 2019/Mental Health & Self-Worth/17 min read

What Are You Afraid Of?

It's the beginning of 2019, so that means it's around that time of year when the 'new year, new me' motto comes back for about 3 weeks and then disappears until Jan 1 of next year…

December 7, 2017/Purpose & Personal Growth/3 min read

Bigger Than Me.

I never know how to start these things... should I be witty? Serious? Use a quote? Post a song? Tell you a joke? Anyways. 2017 was a big year for me in many ways... probably too many to…

August 27, 2016/Life Notes/3 min read

Views from a man in the 3?

I guess I'm going to have to change my blog name - I'm moving to LA. Scared. Excited. Nervous. Curious. Anxious. Ready - these are a few of the 1,000 feelings running through my head at…

June 6, 2016/Grief & Mortality/4 min read

The Illusion of Infinity

So the title may be a bit misleading, but trust me that this is not a blog about math. Please continue to read on without being worried about having to dig up your high school calculus…

August 7, 2015/Purpose & Personal Growth/4 min read

Broadening Your Horizons

So the title may be pretty vague... what am I referring to exactly? What should you be broadening? In short - anything and everything that you have the chance to. I have to admit that I…

April 17, 2015/Boundaries/4 min read

A Tricky Concept Called Independence

So I was going to start this post off with the definition of Independence... but it keeps redirecting me back to the word Independent. Let's go with that then, according to…

March 25, 2015/Purpose & Personal Growth/3 min read

A letter to my younger self

Let's just get this out of the way now: things don't get easier. You currently spend your days going to school, eating junk food, and then coming home to watch Pokemon. Sometimes you make…

February 17, 2015/Life Notes/3 min read

The Theory of Everything

So I honestly wasn't sure if I was going to write on this blog anymore... but I've just been inspired so here it goes. If you haven't heard of The Theory of…