SAM Frida

You know. You know you are not being honest with someone right now. Maybe it is a relationship that has run its course. Maybe it is a friendship you have outgrown. Maybe it is a dynamic at work, a deal you know is not going to close, a promise you made that you have...

There’s a moment usually after something breaks when you stop confusing niceness with kindness. Most people never get there. They spend their whole lives thinking they’re the same thing. They’re not. Niceness is a performance so old you’ve forgotten you’re performing...

VP. Chief Whatever. Director of Important-Sounding Things. I don't care. Tell me how you show up for people. That's the only data point that matters. Here's a thing we all know but rarely say out loud: a title is just a word someone typed into an org chart. It tells...

There is a list circulating that names fifteen psychologists alongside a single, devastating sentence about what each one discovered. You have probably seen it. You may have nodded at a few of the lines, felt a flicker of recognition, then scrolled on. That scroll is...

On misaligned values, the longing to belong, and the one road that actually holds. Here is something nobody wants to say out loud: when your values are genuinely different from the people you are with, whether that is a partner, a company, a family, there is no...

There is a particular kind of pain that comes from waiting to be chosen. Not the clean pain of rejection, which at least has the decency to end, but the slow erosion of waiting for someone who hasn't decided yet. The first image says it plainly: I'm no longer...

I knocked with open palms, not fists,brought blueprints where they wanted lists,spoke in frequencies they couldn't parse,mapped constellations, they saw sparseand scattered dots upon a wall. They built the door. I built the hall. They said: too much, then said: not...