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The Energy Never Dies
Through meditation, a truth emerged: I am the amalgamation of energies from my ancestors. The universe confirmed it through JoJo, Kamala's coconut tree, and thermodynamics. When energy only transforms—never vanishes—we glimpse something profound: our DNA carries ancestral stories, unfinished missions waiting to emerge.
Tricky Sol
4 days ago9 min read
Someone Worth Having Faith In
When Zohran Mamdani responded to Cuomo's attacks with 'What I don't have in experience I make up for in integrity,' I knew I'd witnessed something rare—a politician who actually answers questions, has a strategic plan grounded in precedent, and understands that well done is better than well said. NYC's first Muslim and Asian-American mayor isn't just making promises; he's offering lifelines in a landscape of economic anxiety
Tricky Sol
Nov 97 min read
A Dinosaur's Mystique Comes From Not Moving
We've turned dinosaurs into content machines—CGI spectacles, video game bosses, breakfast cereal mascots. But a former assassin standing in a museum understood what we've forgotten: a dinosaur's mystique comes from not moving. In our rush to resurrect them through technology, we're murdering the very thing that made them magical: their profound, mysterious stillness.
Tricky Sol
Aug 244 min read
Your Lifeblood Runs to Rhythm
Before there were words, there was rhythm. Before cave paintings, there were bone flutes. Music didn't happen to us—music made us. That unconscious head nod when the bass drops isn't a casual response; it's evidence of the invisible river flowing through you, connecting you to humanity's oldest technology for creating meaning, building community, and conjuring the spirit that makes us most fully human.
Tricky Sol
Aug 174 min read
What Are You Willing to Die For?
Most people drift through life with opinions about everything but convictions about nothing. One question separates those who live intentionally from those who simply react: What are you willing to die for? The answer reveals what truly deserves your life.
Tricky Sol
Aug 33 min read
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The Energy Never Dies
Through meditation, a truth emerged: I am the amalgamation of energies from my ancestors. The universe confirmed it through JoJo, Kamala's coconut tree, and thermodynamics. When energy only transforms—never vanishes—we glimpse something profound: our DNA carries ancestral stories, unfinished missions waiting to emerge.
Tricky Sol
4 days ago9 min read
Someone Worth Having Faith In
When Zohran Mamdani responded to Cuomo's attacks with 'What I don't have in experience I make up for in integrity,' I knew I'd witnessed something rare—a politician who actually answers questions, has a strategic plan grounded in precedent, and understands that well done is better than well said. NYC's first Muslim and Asian-American mayor isn't just making promises; he's offering lifelines in a landscape of economic anxiety
Tricky Sol
Nov 97 min read
Fragility of the Mind
I used to think my brain could handle anything—doom-scrolling at midnight, absorbing everyone's drama while ignoring my own mental health. Then I realized my mind had become a digital hoarder, running Windows 98 software while trying to process global catastrophes and celebrity gossip simultaneously. Turns out, my brain's fragility wasn't a bug; it was a feature that needed protection.
Tricky Sol
Sep 213 min read
The Greatest Heist in Cultural History
Every time someone strums a banjo in Nashville or a rock guitar screams through stadium speakers, you're hearing the echo of the greatest heist in cultural history. From the banjo's African origins to rock and roll's Black pioneers, American music was built by Black hands—but the wealth it generated was systematically diverted elsewhere. Recognition without reparation is just another form of exploitation.
Tricky Sol
Aug 313 min read
A Dinosaur's Mystique Comes From Not Moving
We've turned dinosaurs into content machines—CGI spectacles, video game bosses, breakfast cereal mascots. But a former assassin standing in a museum understood what we've forgotten: a dinosaur's mystique comes from not moving. In our rush to resurrect them through technology, we're murdering the very thing that made them magical: their profound, mysterious stillness.
Tricky Sol
Aug 244 min read
Your Lifeblood Runs to Rhythm
Before there were words, there was rhythm. Before cave paintings, there were bone flutes. Music didn't happen to us—music made us. That unconscious head nod when the bass drops isn't a casual response; it's evidence of the invisible river flowing through you, connecting you to humanity's oldest technology for creating meaning, building community, and conjuring the spirit that makes us most fully human.
Tricky Sol
Aug 174 min read
Cycle Two - The Oscillation Principle: How Everything Sacred Is Also Profane
We're taught to think in straight lines—progress, growth, liberation—as if you level up and never look back. But that's not how anything actually works. Everything that matters oscillates: sacred and profane, creation and destruction, the versions of yourself you're becoming and leaving behind.
Tricky Sol
Aug 106 min read
What Are You Willing to Die For?
Most people drift through life with opinions about everything but convictions about nothing. One question separates those who live intentionally from those who simply react: What are you willing to die for? The answer reveals what truly deserves your life.
Tricky Sol
Aug 33 min read
Who Decides What's Sacred and Profane?
When Bach is performed in a cathedral versus Carnegie Hall, who decides whether it's sacred or profane? Religious institutions have spent centuries claiming authority over this distinction, but their narrative—that artists who leave religious contexts are "selling out"—reveals more about power and economics than spirituality. Maybe the real profanity isn't leaving the church, but limiting the sacred to institutional control.
Tricky Sol
Jul 274 min read
You Won't Break (My) So(U)l
Six years ago, I was imprisoned in my own mind, drowning in negative self-talk and echoing beliefs that were never mine. At 24, I've rebuilt myself from the ground up—and discovered that personal growth doesn't progress in a straight line. Like a mathematical function oscillating toward infinity, I've learned that the magic happens in the space of infinite possibility.
Tricky Sol
Jul 194 min read
Read a Muthafuckin' Book
Between 1740 and 1834, it was illegal to teach Black people to read—slave masters knew books were weapons of mass liberation. Now we have unlimited access to more knowledge than any generation in history, and we're choosing TikTok instead. Your ancestors died for the right to read; the least you can do is honor that sacrifice by picking up a muthafuckin' book.
Tricky Sol
Jul 137 min read
Utopia?!?!
Every utopian vision hides an uncomfortable truth: to build the better world, we must destroy aspects of the current one. The question isn't whether destruction will accompany creation—it's whether we'll be conscious participants in shaping what emerges from the necessary endings
Tricky Sol
Jul 62 min read
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