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Declan Wilson

No Monday in Your Sunday Clothes

My wife adores old musicals.

1 min readMar 10, 2021

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Declan Wilson

Where Did All The Good Ideas Go?

If I had to pick any time to be alive, I’d pick the late 19th century.

1 min readFeb 22, 2021

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Declan Wilson

There’s a Point When 10 Years Doesn’t Seem So Long Anymore

When I was 22, starting out at my first real grown-up job, I was asked, “Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years?”

1 min readFeb 18, 2021

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Declan Wilson

When the Work is the Reward

There’s a very clear reason why I stopped working out.

1 min readFeb 17, 2021

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Todd Brison

One Hero of The Gamestop Craze

The world moves so fast that it’s easy to forget that only two weeks ago, the internet took down a hedge fund with Gamestop stocks.

1 min readFeb 17, 2021

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Declan Wilson

Are You 100% Responsible?

I saw a tweet the other day that went something like this:

1 min readFeb 15, 2021

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Declan Wilson

Exposure + Confidence = Learning

My son finished reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone this week.

1 min readFeb 12, 2021

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Todd Brison

Hope is a Fire

Hope is a fire, not a light bulb. You can’t flip hope on and off. There is no circuit board, no fuse box. There are no shortcuts, hacks…

1 min readFeb 12, 2021

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Declan Wilson

Give a little

Parasocial relationships — or one-way relationships — are nothing new. In their heyday, The Beatles were adored by raving young fans who…

1 min readFeb 11, 2021

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Declan Wilson

It’s Not That Simple

We do our best to control what we can, we even do a good enough job to think we’re the ones pulling the strings.

1 min readFeb 10, 2021

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