Patterns

The CV is excellent. The man it describes feels like a stranger you are paid to impersonate. The Decorated Stranger pattern, named, mapped, and addressed.

Event motivation has a measurable half-life: about eleven days. What the data says about why the high fades, and the structure that holds when feeling does not.

The profile is thriving. The person is tired. The distance between your LinkedIn self and your Sunday-morning self is measurable, and it is costing you both.

At 5:45 a.m., Nairobi’s early light filters through the curtains of a cramped apartment in Kilimani.

Your brain treats an open loop as a live threat and an abandoned one as relief. The mechanics of unfinishing, in plain language, and the lever that actually moves it.

Ten years of almost-finished compounds like debt: the certification, the book, the apology, the business. An honest accounting of the decade the loops took.