THE BLOG
Someone on your team said a line in a meeting last week and three people nodded.
It was your line. You said it maybe eight months ago at the end of a long afternoon, not making a point so much as bei...
The group chat lights up at 4:52 on a Wednesday. Karaoke Friday, eight o'clock, the place with the good fried pickles. Within ninety seconds there are eleven thumbs-up and a GIF of someone in a sequin...
Somewhere around Wednesday you noticed you'd been running the same meeting in your head for three days.
Not work in general. That one meeting. The Thursday before you left, where a decision got made ...
Saturday you slept until ten.
You woke up thick. Slow behind the eyes, faintly annoyed, already counting how much of the morning was gone. Not rested — closer to hungover, without having done anythin...
There's something in your garage you bought on purpose.
A bike. A guitar case. Clubs, a kayak rack, a box of paints you paid real money for. You didn't end up with it by accident — at some point you ...
Try to name what you built today.
Not what you attended, or answered, or handled. What you built. Most days, if you're honest with yourself, the sentence doesn't finish.
You weren't lazy. You starte...
The room got quiet after you spoke, and it wasn't the good kind of quiet.
You were right. That's the part that's hard to shake. Somebody put a half-formed idea on the table, you saw the flaw in it im...
Somebody is fifteen words into telling you something and you already have your answer.
You're not being rude. You're being fast. You've heard a version of this before, you can see where it's going, a...
Open your calendar and look at next week.
Now ask a strange question about each block: who put it there? Not who typed it in — who asked for it. The client asked. Your manager asked. The committee as...
