Ryan Fightmaster MD

04/04/2026

I created this list because I figured all of us keep an active and evolving “Oh sh*t” list. Because we must. Won’t speak for you here, but I get lost all the time. Don’t know up from down. Doubt from conviction. That’s why my list goes 30 deep. I get help, inspiration, and laughs wherever I can get it.

Jokes aside—and writing this was a lot of fun—creativity really matters. I’m indebted to this stuff. It connects and carries me, over and over. Shouts to everyone who put their soul on the line for a song, a script, or a sport. It mattered. Won’t stop mattering.

To making meaningful stuff!

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soundofmusic

03/28/2026

I’m not making anymore mountains out of post holes

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03/24/2026

Sanity is for the birds (and the weekend)

03/23/2026

Not sure about you, but I don’t like drinking my backwash 🤔

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03/17/2026

Let your eyes wander. Never know where you might see the truth 🫣

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03/14/2026

Risk grows self belief. Recognition is the catalyst.

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03/12/2026

If it gets you closer, that’s good enough 🎯

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03/06/2026

What happens when you let fate decide if you get to be who you are?

The knowledge that my family was proud and happy provided me with no solace in the darkness.

02/17/2026

The most unselfish act: going for it 🎯

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02/14/2026

Locating the more sustainable source of self 📍

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02/11/2026

Time’s compounding our compromises 📈

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02/05/2026

I had no epiphanies. Only millions of decisions and thousands of thought experiments, each like the addition of a single coin in that one arcade game, until the coins stacked atop each other, moving closer to the edge, millimeters hanging off the edge, until the miniature bull dozer pushed a load of coins off the ledge.

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