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Somewhere on campaign, probably in a tent on the Danube frontier, Marcus Aurelius wrote a note to himself about wanting to be elsewhere.
I had a morning recently that, on paper, should have been a good one.
Sit down to do real work, the kind that asks something of your brain, and notice how long you can actually hold it.
Ask most managers what makes for a good day at work and you'll probably get a predictable list.
Here's how many of my mornings go.
For a long stretch of my life, I measured myself by the rung — what title sat next to my name, and how that lined up against the people I started out with.
Here is the number that stopped me.
By eleven fifteen on the second day, the morning's writing was done.
I left a finance job in Ireland in my early twenties.
The cursor blinks. The research is open in nine tabs, the coffee has gone lukewarm, and I have read enough to write a competent summary of the thing.
In 2025, a nationally representative survey of 1,060 US teens found that 72% had tried an AI companion at least once and 52% used one regularly.
You finish work, you close the laptop, and you tell yourself the evening is yours.
