Why Musing, Why Public

I started this blog for the most embarrassing reason a person can start a blog: I had too many ideas in too many places, and decided the solution was, somehow, to make one more. The ideas were piling up in chat windows, sticky notes, margins of books, and in conversations that ended with someone saying “you should write that down somewhere.” So here we are. Somewhere.

This is a notebook in public. The two things I think about most are the paradoxes of raising a family and the strange new century we’re navigating at work. Sometimes they run on exactly the same principles. Other times, conflating them ends badly — performance reviews on chores, for instance, are not the unifying breakthrough they sound like at 11am on a Sunday.

A lot of what shows up here will be drafty on purpose. I’m trying to riff my way to clarity, which means I reserve the right to be wrong — and I fully expect to be proven wrong at a speed directly proportional to how confidently I declare I’ve found a new truth. Some posts will get refined and stitched together over time. Some will age badly.

The Standard Disclaimer

These are my thoughts. Not yours, and definitely not my employer’s, my clients’, my wife’s, my children’s, my dog’s, or any organization that has ever cut me a check. Some of them might in fact be my dog’s, but that’s covered by an NDA.

I am a person with opinions and a keyboard, which the internet has, regrettably, taught us is not always the same thing as a person with expertise.

Nothing on this blog is legal advice, financial advice, medical advice, parenting advice, marital advice, or career advice. If you’re about to make a major life decision based on a blog post — mine or anyone else’s — please at least also call your mother first. She probably has other thoughts.

I reserve the right to change my mind inconsistently.