That even though I strive to create and be creative, I have to balance this with decades of capitalist conditioning. I have to be cognizant of my motivation when I’m working in and on my business. Am I desperately grabbing at financial opportunities because I’m worried I won’t get my piece of the pie, that someone else will snag it and I’ll miss

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Because I work in tech, which is a grossly overpaid industry, for the past seven years or so since I started writing, I have taken 4-6 months off every few years between jobs to write. This is a huge privilege, obviously (and maintaining the ability to do this is one of many reasons why I don’t think I’ll have kids and also why I work in tech). But... See more

I needed somewhere to write, to integrate what I had learned while my world was being reshaped. The MA was a study of imagination and the first of its kind in that it was a scholarly pursuit but also soul work and deeply transformational.

Substack became that. It became the place where I set out to figure out what I think and endeavour to give words... See more