You know what’s funny? I’ve spent the better part of my adult life chasing the dream of efficiency. I’m that person who installs browser extensions to save two clicks and feels smug about it. I’ve fallen for the “this will change your productivity forever” pitch more times than I care to admit. And honestly, the whole industry is built on a massive, unspoken lie. Last month, I decided to track how long it took me…
There are a lot of terms I could use to describe myself last week, but I most definitely messed up.…
So there I was, surrounded by approximately fourteen billion individually wrapped ingredients, a 27-step recipe card that somehow required both…
Like with all modern tragedies this starts off with the same cliche phrase- optimism. And when I say optimism, I am referring to the unearned target that never quite gets acheived. “I am going to pop into FLATPACK FURNISIHNGS right now,” I claimed to myself. “After Saturday’s dinner, I will be picking up a bookshelf I have been looking for. It should take no longer than an hour, if that.” Initially, my assumptions were way…
I’ve always had this complicated relationship with the mirror. Some days, I gaze at my reflection and think, “Yeah, not…