Paul Linehan. Writer, builder, nurse, veteran.

I keep starting things. Some of them even work.

I did command and control for the GPS satellites in the Air Force. I ran retail stores, went to nursing school at 43, and built a system that makes history videos. I also mowed my buddy's lawn in circles on purpose and got a newsletter out of it. All of it ends up here, including the stuff I quit.

Paul Linehan holding a mug

Me, mid-climb.

Essays and notes

Writing

Regret, nursing school, quitting things, and one lawn I mowed wrong on purpose. I write this stuff down because otherwise it just follows me around the house.

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I kept writing because stopping felt like agreeing with the story.

From Don't Put Your Pen Down (draft)

Project board

The Work

Websites, YouTube channels, a memoir, and a game I already shut down. Most portfolios only show you the winners. Mine comes with a graveyard.

A channel and the system underneath it People Time Forgot FrameStak
  • CoreStak Active
  • The memoir Drafting
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On YouTube

My videos

A guy on a beach with an umbrella drink and nothing to do. A woman pacing a hospital hallway at 3 a.m. Which one's living the more meaningful life right now? You already know. And yet here we all are, saving up for the beach.

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Practical tools

Resources

Get an idea down by talking into your phone, before it's gone and you're standing in the kitchen wondering why you came in. Find out if that job you do every week is worth handing to AI, or if you've just gotten attached to complaining about it.

Use the tools

Index cards

Raw Truths

Short things. If an idea only needs a few lines, it doesn't get 2,000 words and a stock photo of a mountain.

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On the board now FrameStak People Time Forgot CoreStak The memoir See the full board

A few things you can use

Creator Business Clone Figure out how a creator actually makes money, because the posts are rarely the whole story. Should This Be AI? Pick a task you're sick of doing and find out if AI would actually help, or if you just want it to. The One Rule Journal A journal with no dates, because nothing kills a journal like 11 blank pages judging you.
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Latest from the writing

Nov 5, 2026 How worried do I have to look? The Climb Oct 29, 2026 I mowed a lawn wrong on purpose The Climb Oct 22, 2026 The things I didn’t try The Climb All the writing

The Climb

Every Thursday I send a letter about something I can't stop thinking about, whatever I'm building, and whatever's got my attention that week. It won't fix your life. Reply anyway. I read them all.

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