I'm Blake Murphy, a writer and systems thinker based in Georgia. In March 2023, at 35, I survived a stroke and have lived with a mechanical aortic valve since 2008. Rebuilding forced me to rethink career, identity, and daily structure from the ground up. I write about resilience and reinvention, build AI-assisted personal systems, and I'm the author of the memoir Still Here. Formerly with California's Department of Human Services, I'm a single father building my next chapter one system at a time.