Projects I'm Working on That Make Me Feel Alive

The other day, it struck me that I hadn’t slipped into a genuine state of flow for a very long time. I had no projects that existed purely for my own enjoyment rather than professional advancement, and my overwhelming anxiety surrounding the current job market meant that any activity not directly contributing to my career prospects was invariably accompanied by debilitating guilt that prevented genuine engagement or satisfaction. What follows is a curated selection of endeavours that may help you rediscover that childhood sensation of time dissolving, the absorption so complete that hours pass unnoticed. Building a personal website For most of my life I identified as a “humanities person”. I genuinely believed myself incapable of working with technology or mathematics at any level. This conviction persisted until I befriended several individuals working within STEM fields. They explained, with great enthusiasm, that STEM inherently involves repeated failure, followed by iterative refin

The other day, it struck me that I hadn’t slipped into a genuine state of flow for a very long time. I had no projects that existed purely for my own enjoyment rather than professional advancement, and my overwhelming anxiety surrounding the current job market meant that any activity not directly contributing to my career prospects was invariably accompanied by debilitating guilt that prevented genuine engagement or satisfaction. What follows is a curated selection of endeavours that may help you rediscover that childhood sensation of time dissolving, the absorption so complete that hours pass