[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"post-fawaz-frank-and-everything-in-between":3},{"slug":4,"title":5,"summary":6,"publishedAt":7,"readMinutes":8,"image":9,"html":10,"bodyFont":11,"updatedAt":12},"fawaz-frank-and-everything-in-between","Fawaz, Frank, and Everything in Between","The name you use at the coffee shop There is the name on your passport, and then there are the others. The one you give a barista so you do not have to spell it twice. The one that got shortened in t…",1793031418201,2,"https:\u002F\u002Ffinjani.app\u002Fapi\u002Fog\u002Fimage?kind=post&title=Fawaz%2C+Frank%2C+and+Everything+in+Between&date=October+26%2C+2026&read=2","\u003Ch2>The name you use at the coffee shop\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>There is the name on your passport, and then there are the others. The one you give a barista so you do not have to spell it twice. The one that got shortened in the fourth grade and stuck. The one your friends use, the one your family uses, and the one your professors never quite learned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some of us changed the spelling. Some of us picked a name that works in every room. Some of us kept our names and learned to say them slowly, with a patient smile, a second time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>None of these choices are wrong. They are small, practical, everyday decisions that add up to something heavier than any single one of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>The pause before the question\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>For people who pass, there can be a second layer. Nobody asks about your name until they do, and then there is that moment before you answer. "Where is that from?" You are reading their face, deciding how much to say, wondering whether the room is about to feel different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For people whose names make the answer obvious, the question has often already been answered before you walk in. That has its own weight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both are real. Both are tiring in a way that is hard to describe to anyone who has not carried it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>A room where your name just works\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Imagine walking into a room where nobody stumbles over your name. Nobody asks you to spell it, shorten it, or explain it. Somebody says it right the first time, the way your grandmother does, and the conversation simply moves on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is a small thing, and it is not small at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is what we are building at Finjani. You take a short quiz, we form a small group with care and choose the venue, and you show up as exactly who you are. Whether you go by Fawaz, Frank, or both, your name belongs at the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Take the quiz and request your first seat at \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Ffinjani.app\">finjani.app\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fill your cup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n","jost",1793031418841]