Wanting to Be Known, Not Cheaply

I never wanted to do this, not because I don't believe in talking and expressing.

Um, thinking often happens loud, but I don't feel like we are leading

to any influential progress with that. That being said, word salad. Uh,

I wanted to be a journalist, an entrepreneur too, somebody whose work

carries the weight of their ideas, not just, not just yapping their way out,

and that instinct never left. And I've always found content creation rather exhausting.

Not beneath me, barely evil, but also rarely apex. Too performative,

too loud in places that don't matter, too focused on being, too focused on being visible without