The Log: Mental Wellness at Sea
Two years ago I got laid off. I didn’t have a plan — I had an itch. Here’s what happened when I scratched it: the performance paradox, the SEO clean-up, the forty subscriptions I no longer pay for, and the honest part tech can’t fix.
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An $89 sweatshirt cost a Canadian customer $202 to receive. A small-business founder does the math — with sources — on what tariffs actually cost.
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“Keep going” is the hardest part of building something new — after years of rejection, circles that got smaller after a layoff, and a lifelong fight with treatment-resistant depression and anxiety. Why it’s still the daily objective, and the one piece of advice I’d give anyone on this path.
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Tech was sold to a generation as the safe harbor — the promised land you crossed oceans for. Then it wasn’t, brutally and fast. On what living inside that correction does to a person, why Satya Nadella’s name on the cuts unsettles me, and why I’ll never call an industry a safe haven again.
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A couple years ago I argued with someone who'd just been laid off and was sure it was ageism. Microsoft's first-ever retirement buyout brought it all back — and made me notice how differently we read the same fact depending on whether it costs us or pays us.