I’ve been thinking about how often I’m technically present and still not really there. The other night I was sitting with someone I care about, listening to them talk, and halfway through I realized I couldn’t repeat what they’d just said. I had drifted into my own head, replaying something small from earlier in the day and stretching it into a future that hadn’t happened. From the outside it probably looked like I was engaged. Inside, I was somewhere else entirely. I keep telling myself I’m just distracted because life is busy, but that …
The Story You Won’t Put Down
There's a version of the past that lives in you like a book you've already finished but keep rereading, and the honest reason you keep returning has very little to do with the ending — which you already know — and everything to do with the fact that being inside the story feels safer than standing outside it with nothing to hold. Grief moves through you and releases. What most people are doing instead is maintenance — the daily, largely unconscious act of keeping a version of events alive, tending to it, making sure the details stay sharp …
The Single Most Important AI Skill Has Nothing To Do With AI Futures of Work February 2026 · 18 min read Essay · What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI The Single Most Important AI Skill Has Nothing To Do With AI YC's Winter 2025 batch grew revenue 10% per week. Previous batches grew 2-4%. Something fundamental changed. It has nothing to do with the models. 88% of YC's Summer 2025 batch are AI-native companies — the highest concentration in accelerator history …
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Trying Again, Again
I wake up some mornings and my head's already running — could've slept earlier, could've finished that thing — and I haven't even moved yet, haven't opened my eyes all the way, and already I'm standing in my own courtroom with toothpaste foam everywhere, sentencing myself to being behind at 7:47 AM. Before coffee. Which feels like a design flaw, honestly, like whoever built humans forgot to add a buffer between waking up and the self-criticism startup sequence. What nobody tells you about fresh starts is they carry this weird compound …
The Quiet Rebellion : Trading More for Enough
There was a stretch of time where my life kept getting shinier on the outside and strangely thinner on the inside. The goals I’d chased for years started lining up: work made sense, money wasn’t a constant headache, weekends didn’t feel like recovery from collapse anymore. People said things like “You’re in a good place,” and I’d nod, because they weren’t wrong. At the same time, there was this low-level emptiness humming underneath everything that I couldn’t explain without sounding ungrateful. I tried to outrun it for a while. New targets, …
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How a Question Turns Personal
I picked up Into Thin Air a few years back because I wanted to understand something that didn’t make much sense to me. Why would anyone choose to climb a mountain that kills so many people? Everest especially. There are hundreds of other peaks, safer, quieter, maybe just as beautiful, and I couldn’t figure out what people were chasing up there; I turned over the usual explanations—thrill, ego, some private calling—but none of them felt large enough to justify the risk, so I assumed the book would clear that up. It didn’t. A …