ellie@princess ~ $ ls ~/series/existential-change-management
cd ../series~/series // Existential change management
Three fieldnotes about removing growth metrics, compulsory migrations, and other enterprise requirements from a life that was never supposed to be a product.
part 1|
2026-07-17
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#07: I will not optimize the joy out of writing again
Every personal website eventually receives the most dangerous kind of feature request: a perfectly reasonable one. Why do you only write in English? You are …
part 2|
2026-07-18
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#08: Your tools do not need to be the future
Every few months, programming announces that everything you know is obsolete. A new language, editor or framework appears. Its website has a dark background, …
part 3|
2026-07-24
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#09: I was grinding myself down
The grindset has a wonderfully simple user interface. Whatever you have, select more. Whatever you achieve, mark it insufficient. If you are tired, that is a …