Second Dad Field Notes

Liam Gately
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Field Notes are short, unfinished audio observations. Thinking made visible before it becomes doctrine. They are not advice. Not conclusions. Not performance. Each episode begins with something noticed and stays with it long enough to examine, test, and complicate it, without rushing to resolve it. Some notes go nowhere. Some later become structure. Many won’t. They sit under Second Dad, not alongside it. Margin notes. Not standards.

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    FIELD NOTES 005 - No Worries

    Someone says “no worries” when there clearly were worries. Most of the time, the moment closes there. This Field Note isn’t about politeness, communication styles, or social habits. It’s about noticing what you rely on when you accept the phrase and move on. The relief of being let off. The convenience of not staying. And the quiet recognition that sometimes, “no worries” doesn’t actually close anything, it just delays it. This episode ends where the noticing does.

    5 phút

  2. 19 thg 2

    FIELD NOTES 004 - Valentine’s Day & Scripted Intimacy

    Valentine’s Day offers a ready-made script for intimacy. You know what to do. You do it. And for a moment, something settles. This Field Note isn’t about romance, tradition, or whether the day is “good” or “bad.” It’s about noticing the quiet relief that comes from doing what’s expected, and the discomfort that appears when that performance doesn’t quite count as enough. Not because anything went wrong. But because the harder version of intimacy doesn’t come with a date, a script, or a clear ending. This episode stops before resolution. It stays with the moment you realise you were hoping the performance would let you off.

    5 phút

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    FIELD NOTES 003 - Mini Roundabouts & Confident Confusion

    A short observational note on mini roundabouts.Not about traffic law, but about what happens when certainty replaces attention.No advice. No resolution.

    6 phút

  4. 5 thg 2

    FIELD NOTES 002 - Queues & the Hunger for Fairness

    An observational audio note. No advice. No resolution. This episode sits with queues — and what fairness quietly provides when the world feels incoherent.

    7 phút

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    FIELD NOTES 001 - Still Here

    I went back to a motivational video I used to love. Not the video itself, the comments. People returning years later. Naming dreams. Naming pain. And then, again and again, writing the same two words: Still here. This isn’t an episode about whether motivation is good or bad. Or whether encouragement helps or harms. It’s a Field Note, an attempt to stay with something uncomfortable without resolving it too quickly. About the difference between shelter and movement. About how encouragement can soothe real pain, and sometimes quietly replace agency. About what it means to return to the same place, year after year, and call survival an achievement. I don’t offer advice.I don’t tell you what to do next. I just leave one question hanging: Am I moving, or am I just still here?

    13 phút
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Field Notes are short, unfinished audio observations. Thinking made visible before it becomes doctrine. They are not advice. Not conclusions. Not performance. Each episode begins with something noticed and stays with it long enough to examine, test, and complicate it, without rushing to resolve it. Some notes go nowhere. Some later become structure. Many won’t. They sit under Second Dad, not alongside it. Margin notes. Not standards.

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    Liam Gately
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