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Archive - MATTLR.COM
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- Nuking Unhealthy language, get your comeback ready: Reviewing the reviewer
- First Day Back Detox: Nuke News, Kill Gossip, Reset for 2026
- Ditch the Fluff: Zap Sterile Speak and Unleash Commandos of Clarity
- Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to download a Yin-Yang Spinner.
- A Resolution: Navigation, Resilience, and Action for the Times Ahead
- Beyond Yin-Yang: The Relational Reality of Darkness and Light
- Disconnection, Misunderstanding, and the Cost of Demanding to Be Understood
- The Churn Effect: When Our Words Feel Busy but Nothing Changes
- When You Don’t Know What to Do
- The Loneliness in December. Merry Christmas, All!
- The Quiet Refuge: Why Support Groups Need Less, Not More.
- Crusader Tumbles: A Street-Side Sermon on Gratitude
- F*LEH: The Meaning of Form and Shape
- The Illusion of Being Understood. A personal Reckoning.
- Online Outrage: Fuel for the System, Not Power for You
- 3AM Questions That Cut Back: Doubts That Steal Your Sleep
- Facing Life ] [This way, Probably
- Ammonia Avenue, Eighties Radio Ads, and the Soundtracks That Shape Our Language
- Why Leadership Seminars Are Absurd: Universal Skills Live beyond the Executive Watercooler
- Talent vs. Micro-Management: How to Spot, Survive, and Navigate Dysfunctional Leadership
- How Platitudes Destroy Your Mindset (And What to Do About It)
- LinkedIn Pushback Experiment: What Challenging Platitudes Taught Me
- We Crashed a FCKING Airport: How Panic Makes Disaster Worse
- This way, probably. Past lost. Past broken.
- The Weight of Being Human
- The Quiet Power of Kindness is a Rebellion
- Podcast > Anger as Data : A Signal, Not Shame
- Start here….
- Craving Answers: Permission to Rot in your own Choices
- Don’t Drown Without Humor: Embrace Life’s Absurdity
- How to Speak So People Can Hear You: It’s Not About Winning the Conversation
- The Ugly Truth About Keyboard Warriors: Energy Bleeding Online
- Broken? Good. Now Move.
- The Lie of Extraordinary.
- Nobody Aspires to Become an Addict
- The Myth of Healthy Conflict: Confrontation Builds. Conflict Bleeds.
- Rockjaw’s Rule: When True Leadership Runs Out of Answers
- Opinions: Who Ordered the Bulldozer?
- The TikTok Prophet: Preaching Meaninglessness.
- Silence Screams
- Hurtful Words and the Fracture of Ego vs Healing
- Healing Isn’t a Journey.
- Today I Was Right and Still an Asshole.
- Invisible, Not Unseen: Quiet relevance.
- Imagine Life Without a Soundtrack.
- No Trophy, Just Pain: The Lie of ‘What Doesn’t Kill You…’
- Shaved, Not Shaken: Pointing Out Flaws in Others and Forgetting Monk-Magic
- When Pain Becomes Small Talk: The Lie of ‘Everything Happens for a Reason.’
- Too Much to Bear: The Lie Behind ‘God Doesn’t Give You More Than You Can Handle’
- Coughing and Sneezing in Someone’s Face: The Phlegm of Opinion
- Choose Your Hunger and Freedom
- Naming your monsters.
- Hope. No light, only walls that still hold.
- The World Burns on Your Screen: Responses to Tragedy, and Entertainment at the End of the World
- After the Wreck: Not Everything Will Be ‘OK.’ No Bargaining with Ghosts.
- Endurance Without Reason – What’s the point of life? Why carry on?
- Last Sermon of the Managerial God.
- The Pain Doesn’t Vanish: The Ghost at 2AM.
- The Fracture of Your Disconnection: Bobblehead Sermons.
- Who Listens?
- Eighteen Till You Die…
- The Silent Machine Room Prayer
- Despondency: Language as Leverage in the Sludge.
- The Language of Getting Sent to the Meat Grinder
- THE DEATH OF CONNECTION: Commenting on the Menu, Ignoring the Meal
- The dirty secret of side-hustle culture. Part 2. The language of escape.
- The dirty secret of side-hustle culture. Part 1.
- THE WAR ON THE SELF: Performing for the Narcissist. Breaking the Script of Emotional Labour
- Fluff kills!
- THE DEATH OF CONNECTION: He Posted His Divorce. You Scrolled. No One Listens.
- THE WAR ON THE SELF: Learning to Speak to Yourself Like Someone Worth Saving
- THE HUNGER FOR MEANING: Scrolling while your soul starves, and yearning to escape.
- You won’t change the world
- The Language of Getting Scammed, Naming the Wreckage, and Leaving It Behind
- THE LIE OF SUCCESS: You Were Not Promoted. You Were Repositioned
- A note to a failing manager. What silence taught me.
- Moving Beyond Defensive Words: Catching those pesky “auditors” off-guard.
- Talking back to Sunday anxiety: No, the ceiling ain’t collapsing
- Blinded by Chrome. Leaving LinkedIn
- Work-Life Balance: That Sad Illusion
- Punching down pays, apparently
- So you can never be happy, and that’s good
- Tuesday philosophy snippet: If No One Sees Your Smile…
- Rough cuts from out there: Joel’s story about adventure, survival and endurance.
- The torch: Burn or stay cold
- Surviving the Small King at work.
- What’s the point of carrying on… really?
- Debunking and rating “Everything happens for a reason.”
- What I do when anxiety hits.
- MONK MIND: When “it” hits, answer.
- Swearing is a weapon. Use It Like You Mean It (Or Don’t Use It at All).
- “If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.” Debunking harmful cliches.
- “Tigers don’t cry,” as if anyone’s ever asked a tiger? Reclaiming a warrior’s emotion.
- The “signature” product fallacy.
- “ABOUT” Page updated at last!
- Sunday Spiral Survival : 4 Mindsets + 4 Moves
- “Why Don’t You Just Leave?” The Most Tone-Deaf Advice for a Toxic Job
- It’s Okay to Say You’re Not Okay , But It’s Not Okay to Stay There
- Cultivating the art of the sacred pause.
- “Welcome to Hell, Intern, Let’s Talk About Your Fake Poster Wisdom”
- Fear isn’t always the enemy, sometimes it’s the last sane voice in a room full of PowerPoint prophets
- Oh no!! “IT IS WHAT IT IS!” Let’s just give up already!
- The Myth of the “Leader” A Buzzword in a Suit
- Echoes we mistook for gods!
- Should I roll over the edge, or jump?
- Unlearning “It is what it is!” Surviving weak language and unquestioned acceptance!
- What if I told you that you don’t deserve respect? — Unlearning and survival.
- 85. Nix on the drama
- 13. Your Survival Protocol … No justification required!
- 6. Breathe. And to hell with the asteroid!
- 2022 Throwing in the towel, or not!
- Unlearning [New Year’s Resolutions], and being kinder to yourself when resolutions fail…
- The …. “BEST?” Really?
- When information misses the Mark, or the Joe, or ME …
- The Loneliness in December.
- GARB for the WIN!
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