Aside from pursuing a true passion in this business, another beautiful thing this time has given me is an opening to focus on domesticity. I'm cooking again, which I haven't done in about a decade, and I'm spending more time with my son, Leo.

This brings me to a lot of listening to the music from Disney's Encanto, and one lyric, in particular, has been stuck in my head:

"I'm so sick of beautiful, I want something true, don't you?"

That line hit me hard because it's not just a great lyric; it's a perfect description of my life right now. Even with no paying clients, which is a goal I'm trying to fix, I'm living more authentically now than I have since college. I'm trading the "beautiful" idea of a traditional career path for the "true" reality of building something I believe in and being more present for my family.

And that's a beautiful thing worth fighting for.

This lyric isn't just about my personal life. It's the founding principle of Transparent Talent AI. The modern job market is obsessed with "beautiful." Glossy career pages, inflated job titles, and slick recruiting platforms that function as beautiful, opaque black boxes.

Job seekers are sick of it. They want something true.

They want to know if a job is truly a good fit, not just if the description looks good. They want a real, data-driven reason why they are a match, not a vague, automated rejection.

That's why we built the Transparent Relevance Scorecard. It's our answer to the "beautiful" illusion. It’s a tool to provide objective, verifiable truth in a market that too often lacks it.

Building a more authentic life and building a more truthful job market feel like two parts of the same fight. And it's a fight worth having.