Personal essays, notes, and ideas worth sharing.
What Even Is a Dopamine Menu? If you’ve been anywhere near TikTok in the last few months, you’ve probably seen someone enthusiastically categorizing their joy into a restaurant-style menu. The dopamine menu trend started with ADHD coach Jaclyn Paul, who…
Last Tuesday I watched my neighbor spend twenty minutes trying to parallel park while simultaneously livestreaming the ordeal to her Instagram followers. She kept backing up, adjusting her phone angle, and narrating her struggle like David Attenborough documenting wildlife. I…
The Setup: When Your Phone Becomes a Lab Rat So Google launched this thing called Digital Wellness AI back in January, and I figured why not volunteer my scrolling addiction as tribute to the algorithm gods. The premise is straightforward…
When Work Stops Feeling Like Work Last Tuesday I caught myself actually excited to open my laptop at 7 AM. Not the fake excitement you perform for your boss during standup meetings, but the real kind where you forget to…
The $1,200 Question Nobody’s Asking When Apple slashed twelve hundred dollars off the Vision Pro 2 this February, bringing it down to $2,299, most people saw desperation. I see something else entirely. Sure, Apple’s Vision Pro pricing strategy screams “we…
The Hotel Lobby Revelation I was sitting in a Marriott lobby in Phoenix last month when it hit me. The beige carpet, the fake plants, the sound of rolling suitcases on tile. I felt completely at ease. More at ease…
There’s a guitar in my bedroom closet that I’ve been “learning” for three years. It sits behind winter coats and old hiking boots, tuned just enough to sound optimistic when I pull it out every few months. I can play…
The Librarian Who Changed How I See Advice I was twenty-two and complaining to the reference librarian at my local branch about how impossible it felt to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. Instead of the…
Last Tuesday I caught myself arranging my desk pens by color before starting work, and I had one of those moments where you see yourself from the outside. There I was, a fully grown adult, spending three minutes making sure…
Why Everyone’s Talking About the Wrong Tech Here’s what drives me nuts about tech conversations these days. Someone mentions a life-changing app, and it’s always the flashy stuff. The AI that writes your emails. The meditation app with celebrity narrators….