Chad Stamm

22/08/2026

Here's the latest from Cultural Currents -- a realization I recently had on the banks of the Tejo.

Three years in the same deck chair in Lisbon, and I'd never fully recognized the name of the place.

22/06/2026

Two families. One plane to Naples. A shared commitment to making every meal count. Somewhere in the carbs and the chaos, the Bowcotts and the Stamms became the Stamcottis.

But this trip also took me back to Pompeii — twenty years after I first walked through those gates on my honeymoon with Alli. The ruins hadn't moved an inch. I had. It turns out it might take learning what life actually is before you can feel the weight of losing it.

New on Challi — part travelogue, part something heavier. The Bowcotts, the Stamms, Naples, and what you actually carry out of a place when it's time to leave:

Join the Bowcotts and Stamms on a culinary adventure in Naples and Ischia, exploring food, culture, and unforgettable memories with friends.

16/06/2026

There are genuine lessons for everyone in this:

Support Islam, Oppose Islamists

04/06/2026

I made a thing.

It's an AI tool called Content Prism. You give it an idea, and instead of handing back the same take everyone's already posting, it splits your idea into six different angles, pokes holes in each one, and hands you the sharpest version — before you've written a word.

Basically: stop writing the obvious version of your idea. Run it through the prism first.

Free, if you're the kind of person who tinkers with this stuff 👇

github.com/chadstamm/content-prism

16/04/2026

Any questions on what this means or how you can step through the doorway into this new world? Hit me up...

When One Person Plus AI Beats 100 People Without It

01/04/2026

I was just talking about this very concept last week...

Sometimes you have to lean into what the day holds. Sometimes you have to go with the flow. Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, you have to be okay with stopping. Sometimes you have to commit to the work in front of you rather than force a social situation to come together. Sometimes you have to focus on the thing that matters instead of the thing that's desirable. Sometimes you have to take what the defense will give you.

https://stevenpressfield.com/2026/04/take-what-the-defense-will-give-you-2/

The work always resists us. Some days it REALLY resists us. On those days, there’s no shame in doing what football offenses do: Take what the defense will give you. If our novel/screenplay/dance/comedy sketch won’t let us throw the deep ball that day, that’s okay. Take the short pass. Take the...