New Season | Now Streaming

Season in progress

Life does not require a permanent role to have a coherent plot.

Essays on work, identity, and orientation for people whose story changed faster than the structures around them.

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We used to spend early adulthood establishing who we are professionally, and the rest of it inhabiting that answer.

Increasingly, the answer has to be renegotiated over and over. Roles change, organizations disappear, and expertise gets cheaper. If identity hangs too heavily on structures like these, every change outside becomes a crisis inside.

New Season | Now Streaming is a publication about that problem and the many adjacent ones. It covers technology, medicine, AI, faith, creativity, attention, aging, and the occasional absurdity of modern professional life. The topics vary, but the question running through them is the same: how do you change without losing continuity with yourself?

The through-line

Complexity, then sensemaking, then clarity, then action.

Sensemaking

Understand what is happening before deciding what to do.

Simplicity

Remove complication without removing reality.

Clarity

See what matters, what is noise, and what can wait.

Orientation

Given who you are, where you are now, and how to move.

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This season

All letters

The territory

What a new season tends to bring up

[Placeholder] A few of the recurring questions these essays, and the private conversations, keep returning to.

Identity invariants

What persists when titles, employers, and roles change.

Without the coordinates

When profession stops answering the questions it used to.

Orientation

Knowing who you are, and still needing to know where you are.

The maintenance burden

The quiet cost of re-proving who you are, again and again.

Simplicity

Clarity with fidelity: complication removed, reality kept.

More in the letters

Every essay is a different angle on the same question.

A vocation does not have to be permanent to be worthwhile. A season can be valuable without being the final season.

Private conversations

Some readers eventually want this way of thinking applied to their own situation.

It might be a professional crossroads, a role that no longer fits, or a problem you can't quite name yet. I take on a small number of private conversations each season to help experienced people make sense of where they are, what still holds true, and what deserves attention next.

There's no sign-up form, no intake funnel, and no newsletter list attached. You write to one person, and the conversation stays between us.

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What this is not

Not therapy, treatment, coaching, or job placement, and not a promise of a particular outcome. It is a thinking partnership: you stay the author of your next season, and the problem becomes better understood.

New episodes, occasionally.

Essays arrive when they're ready. Some have a lesson, and some are simply interesting.

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