A memoir about what's broken in tech and how to fix it
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Shorter pieces on the patterns I've documented: the warning signs, the structural problems, and how to tell when you're being set up to fail.
How to spot toxic workplaces before they damage your mental health and professional growth After surviving multiple layoffs and working across startups, government contractors, and Fortune 100 companies as a designer, I’ve learned that the most dangerous workplaces often present themselves as dream opportunities.
You're not the only person who noticed. Every two weeks I send stories from the book and the patterns behind them — the isolation economy, the CEOzilla trap, and why “culture fit” became a weapon.
I knew the news was bad before I even opened the developer tools. The education startup’s online learning app was loading with that particular sluggishness that tells you something’s deeply wrong under the hood. Not broken exactly, but struggling.
I am a strong advocate for people getting therapy as a way to learn about themselves. I have done it for years, but not every therapist will be able to work with you.
I studied photography when I was in college. The dirty smelly analog kind, the kind when you’re in a darkroom for hours on sunny days developing film and then printing the same image over and over, dodging and burning with homemade cardboard tools until the smell of those chemicals made me dizzy. I learned about storytelling and the rule of thirds too, but for me I learned all that in smelly darkrooms.
New pieces every few weeks, working through material from the book. On deck: the “team of one” seduction, privilege and workplace power, and why financial independence is the only real leverage most of us can build.