Late-pandemic thoughts: please talk to me about work

Friends, it’s been a minute. I make no excuses. 2021 is the year I stop pretending this space is anything other than a more professional, less coming-of-age-angst-y incarnation of my early-2000s LiveJournal.

Blogs felt so different then. They allowed us to step into the writer’s mind and process life through their lens. Terms like SEO, monetization, and content had no connection to blogging.

Not that I ever intended to monetize this blog. Still, there’s this sense, even with an informal bl...