There's something about using antibacterial eye ointment four times a day from waking to sleeping that takes a lot out of a person. The good news is that my eye is almost back to normal and would appear to be so if you looked at it in isolation. Compared to my right eye, it still has the slightest tinge of pink, but even that will probably fade in the next day or two. Funnily enough, on Sunday, I actually had the opportunity to lean into an echo of my pre-2026 routine. After

Most of my blog posts revolve around behind-the-scenes glimpses of projects I'm working on. That, or they re-frame "bad weeks" into signals: signals that the body needs rest, signals that more progress is being made than originally anticipated, signals that are worth paying attention to. This week? This week I'm letting the frustration breathe. Not for pity, not to whine, but because frustration is a very real emotion and sometimes it needs the stage. So. I'm giving it the st

Back in late December/early January, I decided to see how Purpose typed my personality according to the Myers-Briggs framework. After some exploration with how I would react to various concrete scenarios, it typed me as INTP (TiNe), TiNe being the INTP's cognitive function . I've answered the Myers-Briggs personality test in the past, and I've always taken issue with how vague the questions are. Take this one for example, "Complex and novel ideas excite you more than simple