miri

Between worlds. Rebuilding in public. father, filmmaker, going nomadic. @Damiri_official podcast

[miri @telmeri]

4/4 I'm calling it Damiripedia. Building it in public. This is v1. I'd love your feedback. https://t.co/Wdid3C3Hr9

[miri @telmeri]

1/4 For years, I could NOT search anything in my podcast.

100s of hours of Damiri over 5 years. 100s of conversations about things I care about.

Years later, all that life advice is gone. Somewhere in the archive.

The stories are in there. The searchability isn't.

[miri @telmeri]

3/4 Step 1: transcribe everything. Ai does that job in hours not months. Step 2: turn the transcripts into a wiki. Not a search box. Actual articles about ideas, people, references, so you go in looking for one thought and leave with the full conversation around it.

[miri @telmeri]

You do not need a reason to reinvent yourself. "I outgrew who I was" is enough. Not every transformation starts with a crisis. Some start with boredom.

[miri @telmeri]

Hotel lobbies, saunas, and bus stops. The three places where strangers are most honest with each other. No context. No history. Just whatever is on their mind.

[miri @telmeri]

Every good conversation I have ever had was shaped by what I chose not to say. The questions you hold back are worth more than the ones you ask.

[miri @telmeri]

The gift is not the languages. It is the gap between them. That is where you learn to watch instead of perform. And watching is how you learn to tell stories.

[miri @telmeri]

Growing up bilingual is not a superpower. It is a permanent split screen you never learn to close.

[miri @telmeri]

People call this a gift. Some days it is. Most days it is just the way the wiring works, and you stop noticing until someone points out that you just switched mid-sentence.

[miri @telmeri]

Being a part-time father means your emotional clock runs on someone else's schedule. The ON is intense. The OFF is louder than you expect.

[miri @telmeri]

The hardest part of starting over is not the loss. It is realising you were already starting over long before you admitted it.

[miri @telmeri]

You are probably reading this on your phone, sitting somewhere comfortable, with food in the fridge and people who would pick up if you called. That is it. That is the thing you will miss when it is gone.

[miri @telmeri]

Happiness is two things: a viral disease that infected all of us, and the most successful psychological operation in history.

[miri @telmeri]

I am not an expert. But I have rebuilt my life from scratch in my 40s. Single fatherhood, new city, new rhythm. The one thing I have noticed: happiness was always there. I just could not see it until something broke.