This Plane Ride Could Have Been An Email
I made an offhand comment on a call yesterday that has been rattling around in my head ever since. “This plane ride should have been an email.” It got a…
Category: Work
The Problem With Personality Tests
Personality tests are corporate astrology. That sounds harsher than I actually mean it, but only slightly. Like astrology, the scientific foundations underneath many workplace personality systems — MBTI, DISC, True…
Collapse Isn’t Just Institutional. It’s Personal.
There’s a form of collapse that doesn’t make headlines. It doesn’t announce itself with dramatic exits or public implosions. It shows up in smaller ways. A skipped status call. A…
Practical Acceptance
January is already a rough time for me to pretend to be a functioning adult. Coming back after the holidays feels like trying to re-enter orbit with half a tank…
AI Isn’t Just a Tech Shift—It’s Late-Stage Capitalism Speedrunning Its Oldest Failure Modes
One of the strangest rituals of the current AI moment is how hard the industry tries to insist that everything is new. That this is a clean break from history,…