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Current Favorite: "Stop chattering, start mattering." - Chase Hunter Richardson (2026)

Other Favorites: "We are disturbed not by things, but by the views which we take of them." - Epictetus

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Hello From My Other Sides
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Hello From My Other Sides

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Chase Hunter Richardson
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If you don't want to read all of this, click this button to copy Chase's pre-prompt and this story to see what AI thinks. Add at the end the tone of voice or style you'd like to receive it in for best experience.

Hello LinkedIn! I'd like to share a bit of my serious and silly sides, if you have a moment...

This is out of character for me, to be both serious while finding my raw side. Long-form, for me, is a novella or short book, so using every char for comments and posts is normal for me.

You've been warned and welcomed.

I plan to fix this for the future by embedding accessibility options into my blog and website. I'll record my blog posts so anyone can listen and read along with subtitles that auto-follow the audio. I tested this with my 72-year-old tech-challenged father who doesn't text. He was able to click the URL in an SMS and listen to 13 minutes of audio. It took 30 minutes to write the prompt with breaks to think or attend to life, then 30 minutes of unattended waiting for a swarm/fleet of sub-agents to do what Fable5 told them to do. When everything was built, tested, retested with chaos engineering in mind, validated by other coding CLIs to be over 90% accepted, and then published to my blog via a hidden path, I got a notification on my phone with a link to try it and share it with my Dad. AI is incredibly capable of many things, and I find it challenging, fun, and downright helpful in so many ways.

Agentic workflows are life-changing. IFYKYK.

Now, because we're here on LinkedIn, most of you have only ever met my serious side. That side of me is awesome; I have spent so much of my life lovingly enjoying life's serious side.

Never more than when it comes to my career, because I've been a leader since I was in my teens, and in every job I've ever liked, I've become a supervisor, manager, district manager, regional manager, interim-everything and anything needed- and more.

Also, in plenty of situations in life, I've made sure my most serious side is present. From moments like weddings or funerals, where seriousness is mostly expected, but there's also room for emotion, to less flexible situations like family court or appearing as a witness for a former employee-turned friend for life.

Unfortunately, sometime around the start of COVID, I forgot how to embrace the silly side of life enough to keep me balanced. Too much of my life demanded seriousness, and when I finally sat down to rest, I had a barrage of personal notifications, life-work such as bills, appointments, and anything that's not meant to be restful, peaceful, or joyous.

I've got a lot to say; I've got the skills and abilities to put out more written content than I know what to do with. I have a backlog of writing that spans from the 90s to this morning. I've got handwritten steno pads and collections of sticky notes to process and turn into something more.

This year hasn't been about any of that, really. I've written notes, sure. But it's been about rest, recovery, rebuilding the foundation of my life so that my sleep might finally average more than 4 hours per night, and finding a way to be joyous and silly.

Goodbye for now, and HELLO FROM MY OTHER SIDES:

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