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Eric Brown

With over 25 years of experience at the crossroads of technology, data science, and entrepreneurship, I've seen as lot of the good and the bad in these areas. I've spent my career helping others to understand how we use data to make better decisions in business and beyond.

Writing

Time & Space

Sep 8, 2025

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4 min read

Time & Space

The calendar marks days, but healing requires choice. In the space time creates, we learn to build ourselves anew.

Eric Brown
Eric Brown

Writing

The Stories We Don't Tell

Sep 2, 2025

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5 min read

The Stories We Don't Tell

The weight of what happened in Afghanistan lives in the stories I can't tell. Twenty years later, I'm learning that some truths are too heavy for words, too sacred for anything but silence.

Eric Brown
Eric Brown

Writing

The Letter

Aug 26, 2025

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5 min read

The Letter

There are words you write when you think you're dying, stained with the dirt and blood of the moment you thought was your last. Sometimes you live to frame them.

Eric Brown
Eric Brown

Writing

Jimmy's Story

Jul 29, 2025

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13 min read

Jimmy's Story

The Kid from Queens

Eric Brown
Eric Brown
The Brotherhood That Waited

Jul 23, 2025

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7 min read

The Brotherhood That Waited

After decades of carrying our stories in isolation, a hotel reunion taught us we were never as alone as we thought. Some families are forged in fire and proven unbreakable by time.

Eric Brown
Eric Brown
The Weight of Words

Jul 20, 2025

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6 min read

The Weight of Words

Through notebooks filled with truth, I discovered that the heaviest burdens grow lighter when we give them voice on paper

Eric Brown
Eric Brown

Writing

Above the Treeline

Jul 15, 2025

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6 min read

Above the Treeline

Where silence heals instead of threatens, and peace becomes possible again.

Eric Brown
Eric Brown

Writing

The Blade's Echo

Jul 8, 2025

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6 min read

The Blade's Echo

How I learned to live with the weight of taking a life at knife-point. Twenty-three years later, the healing continues.

Eric Brown
Eric Brown

Writing

The Unspeakable Bond

Jun 27, 2025

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5 min read

The Unspeakable Bond

The bonds forged in combat resist translation to civilian life, leaving veterans caught between two worlds that speak different languages of connection. Even with therapy and genuine effort to open up, some experiences remain too profound and terrible to bridge the gap between those who were there and those who cannot imagine.

Eric Brown
Eric Brown
How Did You Live?

Jun 9, 2025

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5 min read

How Did You Live?

A meditation on finding meaning in the aftermath of trauma and the daily choice between letting pain destroy you or letting it forge you into something stronger.

Eric Brown
Eric Brown
Is this it?

Jun 5, 2025

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4 min read

Is this it?

Pressed against cold mountain stone with bullets flying, the question "Is this it?" meant everything. Now, years later, that same question has become a daily invitation to make each borrowed moment count.

Eric Brown
Eric Brown
The black marks

May 31, 2025

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3 min read

The black marks

The marks on my skin echo deeper marks within. Some wounds become wisdom when there's no way to erase them.

Eric Brown
Eric Brown
Everything They'll Never Have

May 26, 2025

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3 min read

Everything They'll Never Have

A Memorial Day Story

Eric Brown
Eric Brown
More Than a Long Weekend

May 23, 2025

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3 min read

More Than a Long Weekend

Before the barbecues begin, take a moment to remember the empty chairs. Their sacrifice bought our freedom to gather around full tables.

Eric Brown
Eric Brown
Keeping the Wolves Away

May 14, 2025

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3 min read

Keeping the Wolves Away

A meditation on living with trauma's shadows. Finding peace not through avoidance, but through acceptance.

Eric Brown
Eric Brown
The Divide

May 10, 2025

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6 min read

The Divide

Where survival means transformation, and coming home means never being the same.

Eric Brown
Eric Brown
Between thought and memory

May 7, 2025

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6 min read

Between thought and memory

Where ink meets skin and mountains touch the sky. A journey from darkness to dawn.

Eric Brown
Eric Brown
The Man in the Mirror

May 1, 2025

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3 min read

The Man in the Mirror

Between earth and heaven, a moment of clarity breaks through the chaos of my wandering mind.

Eric Brown
Eric Brown
The Weight We Carry

Apr 28, 2025

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6 min read

The Weight We Carry

The mountains taught me to survive; the memories teach me how to live until we meet again.

Eric Brown
Eric Brown
The Crossing

Apr 7, 2025

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6 min read

The Crossing

Wading through memories deep as mountain rivers, searching for solid ground. The journey home takes longer than the war, but the current grows familiar with each passing year.

Eric Brown
Eric Brown
New Heights

Apr 3, 2025

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8 min read

New Heights

Finding Peace in High Places: A Journey from Battle Scars to Mountain Stars

Eric Brown
Eric Brown
Where the devil dances with the dust

Mar 27, 2025

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8 min read

Where the devil dances with the dust

Where devils dance in desert storms, and dust becomes memory's keeper. Both are carried home from the battlefield.

Eric Brown
Eric Brown
Remembering Jimmy

Mar 24, 2025

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5 min read

Remembering Jimmy

From battlefield memories to healing journeys: a survivor's path through trauma toward reclaiming peace.

Eric Brown
Eric Brown
Unburdened

Mar 15, 2025

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6 min read

Unburdened

Finding peace in the mountains where memory and possibility converge. A journey from carrying the weight of survival to embracing the gift of life.

Eric Brown
Eric Brown
Finally Coming Home

Mar 9, 2025

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7 min read

Finally Coming Home

Finding peace after war, one mountain at a time.

Eric Brown
Eric Brown
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