I woke up at 5:00 AM on October 14th, 2022, and I felt like I was dying. Not the dramatic, ‘call an ambulance’ kind of dying, but the slow, crushing realization that my brain had been replaced by wet cement. I had just finished reading The 5 AM Club by Robin Sharma, and I was…
I spent three hours yesterday researching the best mechanical keyboard switches instead of finishing a project that was already two days late. I don’t even like mechanical keyboards that much. They’re loud and they make my fingers ache after an hour. But there I was, deep in a subreddit, convinced that the ‘thocky’ sound of…
I didn’t get the promotion because I wasn’t there to smell the coffee. That sounds like a joke, or some weird boomer advice about ‘firm handshakes,’ but I’m dead serious. In 2022, I was working for a mid-sized tech firm—let’s call them CloudPulse—and I was crushing every single one of my KPIs. My output was…
On October 14, 2022, I sat in a cramped coffee shop in downtown Seattle for four hours. I didn’t write a single line of code. I didn’t finish the project proposal that was due at 5:00 PM. Instead, I archived 1,400 emails. I felt like a god. I felt like the most organized person on…