DISPATCH #001

2-Minute Tuesday

Hi friend,

Sometimes it’s hard to see your own progress—not because it’s not happening, but because you’re living inside it.

You’ve adapted. You’re in the gains. The needle moved when you weren’t looking.

Same with identity. You become someone new so gradually, you mistake it for who you’ve always been. But you haven’t. Not exactly. You’ve just been showing up.

Quiet effort, repeated often enough, eventually becomes self.

So if you’re not particularly impressed by yourself lately… that might actually be a good sign.

Keep going.

Recipe

High Protein Pizza, because eating like an adult doesn’t mean giving up pizza.

Click before you order Uber Eats again.

Thing I Learned

Loneliness isn’t always existential despair. Sometimes it’s just… scheduling.

If your calendar doesn’t include people who make you laugh, flinch, or feel normal, your brain will invent problems to feel something.

Put someone in your week. Preferably a live human. Preferably soon.

Even if it’s just coffee. Or a walk. Or one of those unhinged phone calls where you both pace in your kitchens.

Quote That Stuck With Me

Ask yourself, truly: why are you talking?

“A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape.”

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Max Love,
EB

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