Practical traction after a hard hit—field notes and tools for rebuilding without performative positivity
By Lugh Sulian “What have I been up to lately?” It sounds like a simple question until you try to answer it. There has been work, writing, learning, fixing things, and discovering that the thing you just fixed has another thing behind it that needs attention. Quite a lot has been happening over here. Getting … Continue reading When the Update Is Still a Work in Progress
Hey there, my dear Ledge Walkers.How are you today?There are days when I become thoroughly sick and tired of people’s scheming, conniving, and quiet attempts to arrange the world around them without consulting everyone who will be affected.Some people will spend an incredible amount of time making plans behind the scenes. They decide what they … Continue reading I Am Tired of Paying for Plans I Never Agreed To
Who am I right now, my dear Ledge Walkers?I can begin by telling you who I am not.I am not the same person I was six or seven months ago. I could not be. The person who stood there on December 15, 2025, watching a company contract disappear and a large piece of his working … Continue reading Who Am I Now? Seven Months Beyond the Fall
Together Requires Something to Stand On Have you ever listened to someone talk about unity and found yourself wondering whether they understood how the room became divided in the first place? The words may sound right. We should work together. We should stop fighting among ourselves. We should remember what we have in common. We … Continue reading Unity Is Not a Slogan
Catch-22 Tonight I went down one of those little rabbit holes that starts with a simple question and ends somewhere considerably deeper than expected. Where did the phrase Catch-22 actually come from? Most of us know what it means even if we have never read Joseph Heller's novel. A Catch-22 is a situation where the … Continue reading When the Rules Become the Trap
Hey, Standing on the Ledge. How are y’all today? Today has been a strange mix of victories, frustrations, and the usual business of trying to keep putting one foot in front of the other. Let’s start with the victory. Organizational Behaviour is officially done. Final weighted grade: 94%. A+. Yay! And I am going to … Continue reading An A+, a Bank, and Another Step Forward
Sometimes rebuilding your life means accepting that the old rules belonged to an old situation. Hey there, Ledgewalkers. This is really the second half of what I was talking about earlier, because money isn't the only place where circumstances change and people have trouble adjusting to the new reality. Sometimes what changes is authority. Sometimes … Continue reading You Can’t Keep Partying Like It’s 1999
