Good Things Do Not Happen to Good People, Part III: Nineteen Years Underground
For nineteen years, Saturn in the eighth house became a language for descent: loss, power, erasure, endurance, and the machinery beneath apparently stable systems. What emerged was not a belief that suffering makes us better, but a harder form of sight—the ability to distinguish what was mine from what was structural.
The Intimate Partner of Business Is Time
Business is often described as being in relationship with money, but its most intimate partner is time. Through Hard Times, family history, industrial pottery, and a Japanese teapot, this essay examines how work learned to measure, discipline, and dominate human time — and what it might mean for business to witness time instead.
Work Is Not a Meritocracy. It Is an Ecology.
The most naïve thing I ever believed about work was that it was based on meritocracy. But merit does not exist outside ecology, access, power, and recognition.