For four months I stopped reaching out to the people I considered closest, and what I learned wasn't that they didn't care — it was that they'd never noticed I was the one keeping us all connected.
There is a particular kind of social media user who barely registers in the public conversation, mostly because they barely produce one.
Picture a one-litre milk carton sitting on your kitchen counter. That is, in volume terms, roughly all the plutonium-238 dioxide fuel carried aboard each…
For a while in my twenties, I was deep into the "think positive" thing. Affirmations on the mirror.
A friend said something to me a couple of years ago that I think about more than I'd like to admit.
A friend said something to me a few months ago that I haven't been able to stop thinking about.
I spent the better part of my twenties reading about how to live well. Books on habits, focus, meaning, discipline.
It's 5:40am in Saigon. The city is just starting to stretch. The motorbikes are still rare, the food stalls are flicking on their fluorescent lights, and the…
The blogs that survived weren't the ones with the cleanest sites or the smartest content strategies — they were the ones whose writers had a specific, peculiar relationship with their subject that no model could simulate by accident.
Ever met someone who counted down the days to retirement, only to find themselves lost and restless six months later?
Class doesn't disappear with a paycheck. It hides in your hands, your fridge, and the way you flinch at a thirty-dollar lunch.
You know that feeling when you look around at everything you've achieved and wonder why it feels so empty?
There's a version of strength that our culture has sold us for decades. It looks like clenched teeth and a straight back.
My dad retired three years ago. He'd been at the same company for thirty-one years.
There's a particular kind of person you've probably met. They're warm. Genuinely warm.
There's a very particular kind of person I keep noticing. They've got a notebook on the desk, or in the bag.
