October 2018. I was sitting in a Taco Bell parking lot at 9:30 PM, shoving a lukewarm Cheesy Gordita Crunch into my face and crying. Not a cute, cinematic single-tear cry—a full-on, snot-running-down-my-lip breakdown. My…
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I was sitting in a windowless conference room in 2019, working for a mid-sized tech firm called CloudScale. The CEO was standing in front of a PowerPoint slide that just said RADICAL TRANSPARENCY in 72-point…
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I saw a TikTok last week that made me want to hurl my MacBook into the neighbor’s pool. It was a guy showing off a $25 ‘mouse jiggler’ he bought on Amazon so his Slack…
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It was 3:14 PM on a Tuesday in 2018. I was sitting in a windowless office at a mid-sized logistics firm in Chicago—let’s call them TransGlobal because I’m pretty sure I signed an NDA—and I…
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