Thinking out loud
in public.
Essays on work, leaving, self-knowledge, and the strange space between staying and going — written while building ExitPresent.
The Sunday-night feeling
The specific kind of tired that comes from a job you're good at but no longer care about — and why nobody's advice ever seems to help. The first essay in a series on the space between staying and going.
Read essay →Why the app will never tell you to quit
Staying is as valid as leaving. Notes on the hardest design decision in ExitPresent — keeping the whole thing neutral when every instinct says to take a side.
The question you're not asking yet
A good interviewer doesn't give you answers — they ask the thing you've been avoiding. How we wrote (and rewrote) the five questions at the heart of the app.
Can you afford to leave?
Money is the number one reason people stay in jobs they've mentally already left. A look at the fear underneath the decision — and what actually helps with it.
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