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The Tuesday Problem: On Mid-Week Malaise, Temporal Disorientation, and Why I Can’t Remember What Day It Is Anymore

The Tuesday Problem: On Mid-Week Malaise, Temporal Disorientation, and Why I Can’t Remember What Day It Is Anymore I woke up at 6:52 AM convinced it was Thursday. Not just mildly confused about the day—genuinely, thoroughly certain that we’d somehow skipped Wednesday entirely and landed directly in late-week territory. I checked my internal calendar three […]

The Inbox That Never Sleeps: On Digital Overwhelm, Boundary Setting, and the Tyranny of Always Being Available

The Inbox That Never Sleeps: On Digital Overwhelm, Boundary Setting, and the Tyranny of Always Being Available The notification chime woke me at 4:17 AM this morning – not an emergency, not anything urgent, just another message in what has become an endless stream of digital demands on my attention. I lay there in the […]