There is a yellow caution triangle on a shirt, and inside it, a hand with a line through it. Above the triangle, in the blocky,…
The Physics of ‘I Had Potential’: Why the Ball at the Bottom Is the Honest Part
There is a white ball sitting at the bottom of a curved ramp, and it is not coming back up. That is the first thing…
The Case for Having Hobbies You Are Bad At: Field Notes from a Recovering Optimizer
A hobby you are bad at is an activity you keep doing with no expectation of competence — watercolors that will never hang anywhere, a…
The Year I Stopped Turning Every Epiphany Into a Lesson and Started Keeping a Junk Drawer of Thoughts
On a Thursday evening in November 2024, I pulled a Leuchtturm1917 notebook off the bottom shelf of my office bookcase — the one I’d filled…
Why I Think Burnout Is a System Failure Not a Personal One
Burnout is the slow collapse that happens when a person keeps trying to meet impossible demands inside a structure that was never designed for rest….