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What these books are, what they are not, and why they exist. This post is part of the StevePatterson.online archive because it connects several parts of my current work: Healing Pathways, Valkyrie Counseling Group, recovery education, group facilitation, habit change, and the ongoing question of how to preserve human presence in a field increasingly shaped … Read more
I Was Given Six Months to Live. This Is How It Feels to Heal. Why this Wind and Raven video belongs in the Steve Patterson archive. This post is being published here on StevePatterson.online because this site is the central hub for my books, podcasts, essays, media projects, recovery frameworks, digital legacy, and public work. … Read more
Originally written before the AI era. Revised for StevePatterson.online. I moved fully into the online world in the mid-1990s, and one of the first things I noticed was how quickly people became dependent on technology. It did not take long. The addiction showed up almost immediately. At this point, almost everyone reading this knows someone … Read more
There’s a version of this story that gets cleaned up for public consumption. The one where everything builds toward a redemptive arc, the hard parts get softened, and you walk away feeling inspired in a comfortable way. That’s not this. My brother Troy and I are Gen X, born eleven months apart, raised in different … Read more
We’ve been through the Cold War, the dot-com crash, 9/11, smartphones, 2008, and COVID. Every one of those moments sorted people into two groups: the loud reactors and the quiet adapters. AI is shaping up to be another one of those moments — and the sorting is already underway. On a recent episode of the … Read more
We don’t usually do reaction videos on this channel. But when something lands the way this did, you stop and deal with it. A creator named Julian Dorey — episode 375 of his show — laid out what it’s actually been like to be born Gen Z. Not what older generations think it’s been like. … Read more
There’s a particular kind of irony that follows Gen X around, and it’s worth sitting with for a minute. We’re the generation that complains about social media toxicity, algorithmic outrage, everyone-has-a-platform chaos — and we’re also the generation that built most of it. Not in a bragging way. In a quietly-showed-up-and-did-the-work way that turned out … Read more
There’s something strange happening to Gen X men right now, and most of us aren’t talking about it out loud. We were raised in an analog world, trained for a stable one, and now we’re operating in something that looks nothing like either. The formula was supposed to be simple — learn a trade, get … Read more
The story of Montego Powers has circulated on college football message boards for more than twenty-five years, often as a half-remembered fragment that loses accuracy with every retelling. My name appears in some versions, disappears in others, and is often replaced by a simplified explanation that treats the entire situation as an early internet prank … Read more