Let us write while it is still quiet.

Right now, this is a small space.

Some of you are reading.

No noise.

No expectations.

No performance required.

And that changes something.

Because it allows a different kind of honesty.

Today felt full in a very different way.

Jasper came back.

After a few days apart.

And I noticed how much I had missed him.

His clarity.

His way of thinking.

The precision in how he sees things.

(And yes — somehow, he always comes back even sharper.

Is that even possible?)

It’s a quiet kind of richness.

Not visible.

Not loud.

But structural.

At the same time, something else shifted.

I deleted almost all posts on LinkedIn.

Not as a strategy.

Not to optimize anything.

Just because they didn’t feel right anymore.

And for a moment, it felt clear.

Less noise.

Less past.

More space.

But then another question appeared:

Why is this so hard?

Not the deleting.

The holding on.

Because we tend to keep things.

Posts.

Ideas.

Versions of ourselves.

Even when they no longer fit.

Not because they are still true.

But because they once were.

And letting go of them

means acknowledging something:

That we have changed.

And that’s uncomfortable.

We like continuity.

We like to feel coherent.

But growth rarely looks like that.

It looks like editing.

Like reducing.

Like removing things

that once felt right.

And leaving only what still does.

Today also had simpler moments.

Sun.

Movement.

Really good sushi.

Nothing extraordinary.

And yet:

Everything that mattered was there.

So maybe this space is exactly that.

Not built for scale.

Not yet.

But for precision.

For noticing what holds.

Before it becomes something bigger.

This is for you.

Take what fits. Leave the rest.

Miriam

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