Meaning-Making

Stop improving and start improv -ing

Life is an amazing improv partner, it’s always willing to play.

Jan 14 • Jibran el Bazi

Man of Steel

How I forged myself into a man of action (by marrying my anvil).

Jan 9 • Jibran el Bazi

Just be kind

is, again, the only essential lesson.

Nov 29, 2025 • Jibran el Bazi

We live in a society with few real men, and, as a consequence, fewer real women.

Radical feminism is a logical reaction, but it’s not the solution.

Sep 3, 2025 • Jibran el Bazi

Use your damn potions, Noob

Your inventory’s full, but your party’s still bleeding.

Apr 24, 2025 • Jibran el Bazi

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Stop improving and start improv -ing

Life is an amazing improv partner, it’s always willing to play.

Jan 14 • Jibran el Bazi

Man of Steel

How I forged myself into a man of action (by marrying my anvil).

Jan 9 • Jibran el Bazi

We live in a society with few real men, and, as a consequence, fewer real women.

Radical feminism is a logical reaction, but it’s not the solution.

Sep 3, 2025 • Jibran el Bazi

Check your HUD (heads-up display)

or: how to gamify self-awareness

Oct 10, 2024 • Jibran el Bazi

Are you swimming against the current?

Are you even aware you’re in a river? | The Art of Meaning-Making Part 2

Nov 27, 2023 • Jibran el Bazi

The most important words a man can say (or sing… or write…)

Part one of my three-part series on The Art of Meaning-Making: Why do we need to relearn the art of meaning-making?

Nov 12, 2023 • Jibran el Bazi

Wear Your Power Like a Mantle (Working with your gift part #4)

And embrace the authority, responsibility, and duty it entails.

Mar 28, 2023 • Jibran el Bazi

What does Love the Process even mean?

Let's peel back the layers of this worn-out phrase and get real with it.

Mar 22, 2023 • Jibran el Bazi

Find someone who is a catalyst for your power (Working with your gift part #3)

And vice versa.

Mar 20, 2023 • Jibran el Bazi

Become Transparent

You have to be transparent, so you no longer cast a shadow, but instead let the light pass through you.

Mar 15, 2023 • Jibran el Bazi

You feel like you wasted your life?

"I might as well enjoy it while I’m here and play around with the other beings."

Mar 14, 2023 • Jibran el Bazi

Can you "solve for distribution" w/o selling your soul?

Some nuance on the trade-offs in "Solving For Distribution" | 100 DoW#73

Mar 13, 2023 • Jibran el Bazi

Newsletters

Essays

Whimsical (personal) essays to help answer life's questions—big & small—so we can live a life of peace, clarity, purpose, and connection.

Studio

Studio entries in which I mostly wax lyrically on my creative processes, show behind-the-scenes work of the projects I'm working on, and share some short slice-of-life updates.

Poems

Original poems from yours truly

Letters to a Noob

What if your inner voice sounded like an old gamer with too many respawns under his belt? With this series I offer unsolicited life advice and mentoring through fictional letters from the perspective of a slightly bitter, long-retired veteran to a noob just starting out in the Game (of Life). Half jokes, half truths, hopefully, full of odd wisdom.