An Unlikely Return

In spring 2025, I deleted my LI profile content. Unsure I’d come back, I contemplated a full exit. I hadn’t posted since 2024, rarely commented, and inconsistently engaged. 

I lurked. On this “professional platform,” I watched as work and our experience with it evolved, as the pressures of the world pressed on, as people commented, opined, and created content about it all–often the same *it* of it all. As I scrolled, I had a non-eerie sense of déjà vu, sometimes seeing a specific image with (somewhat) different commentary over and over within a matter of minutes or the same person’s posts repeatedly even if I hadn’t engaged at all. I was bored with the business content universe (and other aspects of LI, but that’s for another day). 

This isn’t unique to this particular place; other platforms have viral, repetitive content too. But the discovery and curiosity paths elsewhere were stronger. I found that I learned more about work things and found more new things to explore somewhere else too. 

My year away was a broader break from work. I spent time thinking (outside in the mountains, inside looking at mountains, generally in proximity to…mountains) about life–in this country during this era, about Colorado and its quirks, about work (as it was, as it is, as it will or might be) and my work (thinking about humans in the workplace), as well as a series of other things I reflected on that I bucket into a space called “readiness.” I also wandered into many weird spaces and found those diversions uniquely rewarding. 

I ended up with a lot of random writing and ramblings, which for the sake of doing something with the things I have done, I’m going to post (enter the hypocrite!). Expect posts like the ones in the carousel (see also: unhinged, dubious design and drawing skills from procreate and canva). And know, they’ll be written by me. 

Stick around, or don’t. Read the posts, or maybe you won’t. Not sure if anyone will even see this after my hiatus.