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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…