ABOUT BEEW
BEEW stands for BANISH EXPECTATIONS EXPAND WONDER. Ever since the BEEW acronym came to me, I've been thinking a lot about why things fall apart — in me and you, our lives, our world — and the many things we learn when they do. BEEW is a writer's blog where I investigate, interrogate, and contemplate our lives and the wild, beautiful, sometimes scary world we live in. For me personally, in many ways, BEEW is a journey of excavation and reclamation. Though BEEW may always be a writer's blog, I sense something bigger afoot, a seed that just might sprout wings and take flight. See Future BEEW. We shall see.
WRITINGS
Writings are deep explorations of consequence. These include essays, ideas, and learnings on childhood and growing up, parenting and fatherhood, reading and learning, startups, founders, and business, and my serious growing concerns and frustrations with the state of our world. BEEW also has a fun LOLs side that laughs, pokes fun, and sarcastically observes the absurdity all around us.
CURIOUS BEEW
Curious BEEW are List Essays, Link Lists & Recommendations
LIST ESSAYS are topic-specific essays in list form, like 52 Things I Know For Sure. I love these because they organize my mind and help me to visualize, when useful, think and reflect, when necessary, and teach and share, when salient. List essays are my way of sharing some of what I've seen and learned along the way.
LINK LISTS are fun, exploratory, utilitarian lists of links. The internet is the biggest, greatest playground ever created. Unfortunately, most of us have only ever experienced a tiny piece of the amazing, unbelievably useful, and insanely creative internet. Hats off to the link curators out there who introduce us to websites, tools, data, content, and creators we may otherwise never know exist. Link lists are my small contribution to their utilitarian curations.
RECOMMENDATIONS include books, essays, podcasts, playlists, documentaries & movies and tv series I really believe are worth paying attention to and spending time with
FUTURE BEEW
Coming Soon
BEEW NOTES OF NOTE
NOTE 1: Why BEEW? Why Now?
Family & friends aside, reading, writing, and starting and building companies are among my greatest joys in life. Despite this, BEEW is my first formal personal space on the internet. It's also the first time I've shared my writing with the world. Go figure. So why now? There are many reasons, but two, in particular, stand out. See Why now? Perspective & Obligation
NOTE 2: Opinions, Sarcasm & Edginess
Many of my essays are highly opinionated (Soon We Will Have Nothing Left to Give Away of Ourselves). Some are perhaps a bit sarcastic and edgy (Five Most Irritating People in the World). My hope is that you will enjoy and laugh along with the irony, sarcasm, and edginess. Please know that it is never my intention to offend anyone. If something here offends you, let this serve as my apology in antecessum. When I make a mistake, my bad, but fair warning, MISTAKES WILL BE MADE. Lastly, if you hate something or everything here, that’s cool, too. No one’s forcing you to stay around.
NOTE 3: Footnotes v. Digressions
David Foster Wallace, one of my favorite writers ever, was famous for his multitudinous, extremely lengthy footnotes. I love DFW; footnotes, not so much. I've always felt that interrupting a reader mid-groove, be it with supportive facts, explanations, or digressions, was far superior, both stylistically and flow-wise, to the awkwardly bracketed footnote number ([1,2,3...] ≔ not helpful) which only serves to bifurcate a reader's attention between where they are on the page and somewhere else at the bottom of it. Footnotes never made sense to me, so I don't use them. Rather than send the reader off gallivanting, I choose to interrupt them directly inline with the aptly titled warning DIGRESSION. Sleep Pretty Darlings Do Not Cry, I Will Sing a Lullaby... and Digressions in Nomadland — Review & Commentary are examples of two essays that make helpful use of said DIGRESSIONS.