Thanks Mike!

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For months, I asked myself if I was wasting this time. Was I failing at my break? It finally hit me that time off isn’t about success or failure or productivity.

Letting go of that pressure gave me the space to rediscover myself and to rethink how I want work to fit into my life moving forward.

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What you're actually seeing is a stress response that temporarily overwhelms the dysfunction that's always been there.

Crisis doesn't create great teamwork, it reveals what's been preventing it all along. If urgency is how you get focus, it's time to set a better course.

In my experience, deep focus is already hard in offices. As companies push RTO while AI makes interruptions more expensive, it'll be interesting to see if office culture adjusts. I doubt it, as a return to office is really more about a sense of control.

Also, I wound up prepping a 20 minute talk about the story of building Simple.org

It was a lovely walk down memory lane. We solved so many weird and interesting problems, work I’m quite proud of.

If you’d like to hear this story, let me know.

Black excellence is the American dream.
Happy Black History Month ✊

The larger story matters. It was for and by Black folks, a reminder of experience and community and power. It told white supremacy: you can lock us up but you can't trap our minds. He also reminds Drake he's a leach, forever an outsider to all of this.

Same. Her mannerisms were off from the jump.

My recent obsession is CrosswordJam+ on Apple Arcade. It gives you 5-7 letters and you find all the words you can. I turn all the sounds off and just space out.

It's SO calming.

(No, my 8 year old doesn't have a phone. She uses her iPad)