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The Parenting PrismIssue 01

Welcome to the Prism: parenting, career chaos, and finding clarity

The Story

I muted the call, unmuted the toddler, and somewhere in between realized I was running two companies. One of them pays me.

The Big Idea

You already know how to run a team through chaos: priorities, delegation, honest retros. Nobody told you the same playbook works at 6:45am with a kid who wants the blue cup. It does. Here's how to see both jobs through the same lens.

Try This Week

The 10-minute Priority Audit. Write down what mattered this week. Then look at your calendar. Notice the gap. Close one inch of it.

The same five parts, every week.

Short enough to read while the pasta boils. Structured so you always leave with one thing to do.

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The Story

A real moment from the week where work and home collided. Usually funny. Occasionally not. Always true.

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The Big Idea

One lesson from leadership, negotiation, or systems thinking, applied to raising kids.

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Try This Week

One concrete, doable thing. Not a routine overhaul. One thing.

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Reader Mailbag

A real question or confession from another working parent, answered without a lecture.

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P.S.

A fun fact, a laugh, or a teaser for next week. The part people quote back to us.

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Issue 01

Welcome to the Prism: parenting, career chaos, and finding clarity

Founder in one window, dad in the next. Why you don't need balance, you need rotation, plus a 10-minute priority audit to run on your own week.

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For the parent who has a calendar for the household and a calendar for the company, and both are on fire.

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A toddler sitting in the desk chair of a home office, reaching up to type on the keyboard between two monitors and a laptop stand.

Written by a dad who runs things, too.

Hi, I'm AJ. I lead a team at a tech company, run a small brand studio on the side, and have two daughters who negotiate harder than any client I've had.

The Parenting Prism started as a note to myself: the stuff I know from work keeps solving problems at home, and vice versa. Nobody was writing that down without a lecture attached. So I did.

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