V In Everything

Month: September 2025

  • All the World’s a Stage… and I’m a Player, Babey

    Shakespeare’s famous quote came to mind today as I thought about impostor syndrome in tech. Specifically, I was thinking about my own impostor syndrome working in tech, but the writing on the wall of my current company has made me anguish and become very blasé. As one famous tumblr user put it, I’m going to…

  • Tiny Measures

    I’ve perhaps already written about this. If not on this blog then certainly on tumblr. On the night of January 17, 2024 I read a post on tumblr about some award winning author who writes something like 200 words a day. He is a writer as his primary occupation so the limit is not due…

  • Go with the Energy Flow

    I read a Substack article today that has been bouncing around my brain for a bit. The thesis of it is that capitalism and the structure of the workday, ie: expecting consistent productivity and output, is based on the hormonal cycles experienced by men (testosterone peaks in the morning, wanes throughout the day, resets at…

  • TOO MUCH STUFF

    When my mother worked as a full time artist making art dolls she collected a bunch of fabric, beads, and bits and bobs. When the market for that completely died, she offered me all her stuff. The only things I didn’t take were most of her tools and her clay but I did take all…

  • Sacred Salt

    There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea. – Kahlil Gibran I first came across this quote on my favorite place on the internet: tumblr. I thought nothing of it for a long time. I had simply copied the quote in the notes app on my…

  • How Do You Solve a Problem Like… the Suburbs?

    I live in the suburbs. I love living in the suburbs. I like that I can raise my family in a relatively safe place, where I can give my small children relative autonomy, can be close to nature, and still be close to shops and cultural institutions and events. But I hate the cars. I…