The Familiar is Not Inevitable

One of the strangest things about being human is that we can get used to almost anything. Even the things that shrink us. At first, something feels wrong. The pace feels too fast, the room too cold, the conversation too sharp, the expectation too unreasonable, or the...

Meeting People Earlier

I keep thinking about the moment before a person breaks. The quiet moment. The one that rarely announces itself. Someone says, “I’m fine,” and the room accepts it because the answer is familiar, tidy, and convenient. There is work to finish, dinner to make, emails to...

The Quiet Cost of Resilience

We keep asking people to become more resilient. Perhaps the deeper question is not whether people are resilient enough, but what keeps requiring so much endurance from them. Because there is a point where resilience becomes a polite word for survival. Endure the pace,...