In Step 🔄

Author

Damon Brown
November 26, 2025

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Hi reader,

This week always feels like New Years to me

Sure, there is the ball dropping and drinking cordials of December 31st

But there’s something about the stop gap quality of the U.S. Thanksgiving week

The abbreviated flow of the days, requiring mindfulness in what you do

Wrapping up the things you can before midweek

Not starting anything you can’t finish within a day or two or three

And even if you wanted to power through all five days

Everyone else in your world likely is on hiatus, too.

It reminds us of our interconnectedness

Forcing us to recognize the season

Independent of our intentions 🌊

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We can get summertime fruits in mid-Winter

Contact our colleagues 24/7 on infinite apps

Have our desires delivered in next day ship.

But how many times do we have embrace the flow of the seasons

Rather than getting immediate gratification to our desires of the moment?

We look at the old, halcyon days of more meaning

Spending more time in relationship with each other

Sitting in our craft and creating rather than consuming

Being within the rhythm of life with all the boredom and slowness.

Sure, we can blame social media and AI and political division.

Or we can see how we jerk our lives shifting quickly from gear to gear

Moving as fast as our thoughts

Expecting faster delivery or quicker endorphins or speedy victory to satiate our hunger

But it just ratchets up the need to expedite our hit next time.

Until there are universal moments like holidays or crises or hiatuses

That get us out of the race to go, go, go

And realign our link with the rhythms

At least for the moment ⏯️

🙋🏾 I’m Damon! (http://www.damonbrown.net) I help side hustlers, solopreneurs & others like yourself bloom. As a bestselling author, 2x startup founder & 4x TEDTalker, I co-founded the popular connection app Cuddlr and led it to acquisition within a year while being a stay at home dad with my infant son.

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