Brian Tracy taught me internal locus of control in my twenties.
His frame was simple: draw a circle and put everything in your life either inside it (you control it) or outside it (you don’t).
High performers put everything inside. Not because they’re delusional about obstacles, but because they treat every obstacle as a skill…
Cities don’t usually fail in a single dramatic moment.
They don’t wake up one day broken, unsafe, or unrecognizable. Instead, they drift—slowly, quietly, and often unnoticed by the people who care about them most.
This kind of civic drift happens when small compromises go unexamined. Temporary workarounds become permanent habits. Complexity replaces clarity. And no…


