There are some people who appear odd to the world not because they are broken, but because they refuse to break. I’m one of those people. I’m introspective, analytical, and allergic to surface-level thinking. I’ve never been one to fit easily into society’s tight little boxes, and that has come with a price—mostly isolation, misunderstanding, and the feeling that I’m permanently out of sync with the rhythms around me.
My story is not a sob story, though. It’s a human one. Raised in an unstable home, having lost my father at a very young age, I grew up with a kind of mental gravity that most kids never have to carry. That gravity turned into insight over time. I developed a deep sense of awareness, a thirst for truth, and an uncompromising desire to create something meaningful.
Today, I find myself living in a culture obsessed with the shallow. People worship convenience, mock depth, and dismiss anything they don’t immediately understand. In that kind of climate, people like me aren’t just overlooked—we’re seen as a problem. We disrupt the comfort of denial.
That brings me to technology. Artificial Intelligence, in particular, has become both a fascination and a tool for me. It helps me build, create, and organize in ways I couldn’t otherwise manage alone. But more than that, it reflects something about us. Tech isn’t the villain—ignorance is. People fear what they don’t understand. They laugh at it, mock it, or call it dangerous without taking even five minutes to learn what it actually is.
When you fear the unknown, you limit your own future. Dismissing new ideas doesn’t make you strong; it makes you stagnant. I’ve seen firsthand how that kind of intellectual fear can ruin lives—not because the future is cruel, but because people refuse to grow into it.
Right now, I’m focused on creating cookbooks that celebrate flavor, seasonality, and sustainability. I’m building a business that connects people to food and meaning. I’m also exploring how AI can help people better understand themselves—through a personalized report system I created called the Legacy Compass Report, which ties everything about a person together, including their personal bio, with numerology, astrology, and other ancient symbolic systems to map one’s life path and potential. I know the skeptics will have to weigh in.
Do I worry? Every day. I worry that I’ve missed my window. I worry that culture is moving too fast in the wrong direction. I worry that people are so consumed by noise, novelty, and little dopamine rushes of pleasure that they’ve forgotten how to value wisdom, effort, and depth. But I haven’t given up. Because I know that there are others out there—people like me—who want to feel something real.
To those who look at people like me and don’t understand us: maybe it’s not that we’re strange. Maybe it’s that we’re a few steps ahead in a direction you haven’t turned toward yet. Maybe what looks like discomfort is actually the early stage of transformation. Maybe you’re getting left behind and subconsciously you know it and that change makes you uncomfortable, so you have to take it out on the person who creates that change. In the end you'll lose doing that.
Hickory has a chance. But it won’t come from clinging to old mindsets or dismissing what’s unfamiliar -- thinking, “It’s the Devvil” because you don’t understand it.
Personal Growth comes from curiosity, open minds, and courage. You don’t have to understand everything. But you have to stop attacking what you haven’t tried to understand.
The future isn’t something to fear—it’s something to build. That’s what I’m doing. That’s what I hope others will join me in doing too. Those who cast out what they can’t comprehend will come to find that it wasn’t danger they avoided—it’s a reality they’ll never be brave enough to face.
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