The Now V2

Burnout, process, and musings on daily practices to make the long game sustainable.
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Rekindling After Burnout

For my whole life, I’ve prided myself in being goal-oriented, achievement-driven, and capable of moving through hard shit. And while I still do a lot of those things well, the second half of 2021 pretty much wrecked me…

Feeling For The Missing Character: A Conversation on Mechanic’s Origin

When someone asks me about Mechanic (or indeed about Lightward), I rarely know where to begin. My relationship to my work is wholly immersive—and how do you move a knowing from your body to someone else’s mind, using only words?

Not long ago, Rebekah asked me for an actual interview about this, and—for once—I didn’t have to think about where to begin.

Team Musings On Sustainability

How do you make sustainability a priority in a world driven by productivity?

We posed this question to the Lightward team and they weighed in with some practical, insightful, and refreshingly-provocative responses.