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09/20/2026

Have you ever looked at someone you once loved and wondered how the qualities that originally attracted you became the very things the two of you now fight about?

Maybe the independence you admired eventually felt like resistance.

The confidence that attracted you became arrogance.

The sensitivity that once created intimacy became exhausting.

The strength that made you feel secure eventually established a boundary you didn't like.

It is easy to conclude that the person simply changed.

Sometimes they did.

But sometimes something more complicated happened: the quality remained surprisingly similar while our relationship to that quality changed.

Resentment has a way of reorganizing people.

Once we decide someone has wronged us, even old memories can begin changing meaning. Generosity develops an ulterior motive. Independence becomes evidence that they never cared. Confidence becomes proof that they were always arrogant.

Eventually we can know somebody more intimately than almost anyone else in the world and somehow reduce them to a handful of adjectives.

That contradiction became the center of What We Once Recognized, the second chapter of the three-part series that began with Beyond Their Measure.

This chapter also deals with something we don't talk about very intelligently: attraction and love do not necessarily disappear simply because a relationship becomes painful.

You can be angry with someone you still desire. You can resent someone you continue to admire. You can love someone you no longer trust. You can recognize everything that once made a person extraordinary to you while also recognizing that the way the relationship functions today may no longer be acceptable.

None of that tells you automatically to stay.

None of it tells you automatically to leave.

It tells us something less convenient: human attachment does not organize itself around the clean conclusions we would prefer.

Chapter Two: What We Once Recognized
When the Qualities That Drew Us Together Become the Qualities We Learn to Resent

What We Once Recognized
https://medium.com/illumination-book-chapters/what-we-once-recognized-b447aec288df?sharedUserId=HLIRealty

09/15/2026

Sometimes the person being blamed is not the person who created the original decision.

Someone asks for something important. The other person agrees, perhaps after discussion or hesitation, and sometimes agrees largely because they love that person and genuinely want them to be happy.

Then the requested reality arrives, and it doesn't feel the way the person who wanted it imagined it would.

That can happen to any of us. We can sincerely want something and later discover that we misunderstood its emotional consequences.

The difficult part is what happens next.

Can we say, “I wanted this, but I didn't understand how it would make me feel”?

Or does the story gradually become, “You did this to me”?

And what happens to the person on the receiving end when that accusation is repeated long enough that they begin questioning not only the event, but themselves?

I wrote Beyond Their Measure around that question, but I did not want to write another piece where one person is declared innocent and the other becomes the villain. Human relationships are usually much more complicated than that.

Someone's pain can be completely real while their explanation of who caused it is still incomplete or wrong. At the same time, an unfair accusation does not automatically make the accused person innocent of everything else.

The challenge is learning to distinguish what genuinely belongs to us from what has been placed on us, without destroying ourselves or needing to destroy the other person to do it.

This is Chapter One of a three-part series.

Beyond Their Measure
When Regret Becomes an Accusation



https://medium.com//beyond-their-measure-61fc270fadab

08/30/2026

I have been thinking about a very simple statement we use constantly in real estate:

Our job is to sell real estate.

But is it?

Because if that's really my job, then what am I supposed to do when the information I discover could stop my client from buying the property and cost me the transaction?

Years ago in Iran, my brother and I read a newspaper article announcing that the solution to eliminating HIV was preventing the virus from receiving oxygen.

We looked at each other thinking... okay, but the virus is inside the person.

So how exactly are we doing this?

What is the treatment, a hanging rope?

😂

It was ridiculous, but I never forgot the logic behind what bothered us. You can solve one problem perfectly if you forget about everything connected to it.

Years later I realized there is a version of that question in my own profession.

Great, we sold the property.

What happened to the person?

That took me into a much bigger conversation about what a real estate agent's job actually is, including honesty, expertise, admitting when we don't know something, the difference between making a mistake and misleading someone, and the uncomfortable moment when protecting your client's interests can literally cost you your own commission.

I finally put all of those thoughts together here:

A Real Estate Agent’s True Job Is Not to Sell Real Estate

https://medium.com//a-real-estate-agents-true-job-is-not-to-sell-real-estate-fd1a29f467f8

I'd actually love to hear how people outside real estate see this too, because I don't think this question belongs only to our profession.

08/30/2026

Could say it any better!

08/27/2026

08/26/2026

This one is personal.

Before people knew him as Chef Som Katoozi, I knew him in a completely different world, an industrial bakery in Utah where the shifts were brutal, the machines never stopped, and sleep felt more like a rumor than a normal part of life.

One day, after barely sleeping, we sat down near the bakery. I ordered two Heinekens in the middle of the day, and Som looked at me like I had lost my mind.

“We are working, and you’re having a beer?”

That moment stayed with me because of what he said after.

“If I have done this, and I’m doing this, there is no other job that I cannot do. Anything from here is going up.”

This article is about that sentence, and about how success does not always create a person. Sometimes it just gives the world a way to finally recognize what was already there.

https://medium.com//anything-from-here-is-going-up-43c7a68905ff?sharedUserId=HLIRealty

08/14/2026

I already wrote the serious article about observation versus perception.

So this time I thought, enough seriousness. Let's have some fun.

Bad idea. 😂

I found Assawoman Bay, D***o, Condom, Wankendorf, Cockburn, In*******se, Blue Ball, P*e P*e, Poo Poo Point, Boring, Normal, Peculiar, Why, No Name and Hell.

All real.

What started as me laughing at ridiculous geographic names somehow turned into another observation-versus-perception experiment, except this time there is a questionable suitcase involved and somebody eventually gets abandoned in Peculiar.

I had way too much fun writing this one. 😂

**The Town Isn't Funny. Your Brain Is.**

https://medium.com//the-town-isnt-funny-your-brain-is-9ec3bb82efdc?sk=85ebd9821517b11f4ae27f09b416d49e

08/13/2026

I started writing an article about how to teach ChatGPT who you are instead of constantly writing longer and longer prompts.

Then something funny happened.

While ChatGPT and I were making the visual guide for the article, I kept correcting it.

Fonts are too small.

Still too small.

Why is all that space empty?

Those pages should be landscape.

No, not THOSE pages. 😂

Now they're the right pages, but why did you split them like that?

Center the text.

Wait...the text is centered, but why isn't the actual box centered?

And eventually I realized...

We were literally demonstrating the article while creating the article.

I couldn't have included every requirement in the first prompt because I hadn't discovered all of them yet.

Sometimes the first result gives you something to react to. Your reaction reveals a preference. Explaining the preference reveals a principle. And eventually ChatGPT begins understanding not only what you're asking for, but why you're asking for it.

I put the whole process together here, including the 15-page visual guide we ended up creating:

How to Teach ChatGPT Who You Are From Day One

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