Category: Wellness

I was hunched over an old Moog synthesizer last Tuesday, surrounded by a graveyard of capacitors and tangled jumper wires, feeling completely burnt out. My brain felt like a hard drive that had been running at 100% capacity for three years straight without a reboot. I’d seen all the polished influencers on my feed preaching…

I spent most of my twenties thinking “self-care” meant buying a $50 scented candle or downloading another meditation app that pings you every twenty minutes to remind you to breathe. It’s all noise. Most of the advice you see online about how to build a self care routine is just another way to sell you…

I was sitting in my workshop last Tuesday, surrounded by the smell of solder and old capacitors, trying to fix a 1970s Moog synth, when the silence hit me. It wasn’t the productive, focused quiet of a project; it was that heavy, hollow weight that makes you realize you haven’t had a real conversation in…

I’m tired of seeing people spend fifty bucks on “nootropic” brain supplements or fancy electrolyte powders just to survive the workday. Honestly, most of that stuff is just expensive way to mask a broken system. If you’re staring at your monitor at 3:00 PM, feeling your brain turn into lukewarm sludge, you don’t need a…

I’ve spent half my career troubleshooting complex systems, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that most people fail because they try to build a machine that’s too complicated to maintain. We see this all the time with nutrition; people try to follow these elaborate, Pinterest-perfect meal plans that require a culinary degree and…

I was sitting at my workbench last Tuesday, mid-way through stripping the old capacitors out of a 1970s Moog, when I realized I was reaching for a soda for the third time that afternoon. My brain felt like it was running on a glitchy operating system—lagging, overheating, and completely inefficient. I’ve spent my career designing…

I spent most of my twenties staring at flickering monitors and debugging code that felt like it was written by a lunatic, but the real burnout didn’t come from the tech—it came from the sheer, exhausting noise of trying to “optimize” my brain. I’m sick of seeing these $20-a-month meditation apps or “mindset gurus” promising…

I spent most of last Tuesday staring at a half-disassembled Moog synthesizer, feeling that familiar, low-grade hum of resentment because I’d spent the previous three hours answering “quick” Slack messages from a client who clearly didn’t respect my off-hours. Most productivity gurus will try to sell you some complex psychological framework or a twenty-step meditation…

I was sitting at my workbench last weekend, elbow-deep in the guts of a 1974 Moog synthesizer, when I realized I’d spent the last twenty minutes obsessing over a smart water bottle that was currently pinging my phone to tell me I was “dehydrated.” It felt ridiculous. I’m a systems engineer; I deal in logic…

I’m tired of seeing people spend forty dollars on a subscription app that promises “mindfulness” through a series of glowing bubbles and ambient rain sounds. If you’re staring at your phone at 6:00 PM, trying to find out how to relax after work by scrolling through more digital noise, you aren’t actually resting—you’re just recharging…