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Presence
On days when I could stomach a future in biology, I would think of becoming a botanist.
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Rest
The relentless hustle of startup culture, or the crunch of game development, or whatever synonym other tech-adjacent industries like to use for the endless grind of work, all rest on the metaphor of the worker as a single-minded machine.
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Boundaries
Our office intern asked me a strange question this morning: “Hey Kate, when you don’t like a person, is it obvious?”
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Check your privilege
This has been sitting in my Google Drive since 2018. I rediscovered it a couple of weeks ago and figured I might as well find some closure for it. So. Just in time for Father’s Day, too. You know, two decades ago, this day would have meant several hours hunched over a chessboard at home.…
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Is there anything lonelier than falling ill, alone in a foreign country?
Let’s pretend for a second that the answer isn’t yes. You throw a notebook into your backpack and check your phone for the time. A couple of hours to go before the first class of your last term. You’ve been back for all of two days, so home and your flat aren’t quite the same…
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New songs, same loop
This series might be the longest-running commitment in my life right now. Ha. That’s probably because it doesn’t feel like a chore or an obligation, just something that comes into being over time. It’s funny: there are only three playlists so far, but they span three years, which is too long and too short a…
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