Well, that was intensely painful.

On Monday it happened; I lost that cute little team that I started 2.5 years ago, and I did not crack and tell them early in our team meeting... but maybe I wish I had. They were devastated, and I'm not saying that lightly or to brag. ( Read more... )

This entry must be incomprehensible, sorry, the point is that I exhausted myself and I cried too, and the squirrel had such a bizarre workweek that it sounds like a parody of corporate dysfunction (executives dysfunction?). For our date we were just zombies together, and not in a Halloween way.

I was grateful to have "coffee" with motyl and a couple of other work-friends, scattered into my two days at the office. Relationships outlast companies all the time; once I'm out I think I'll get a lot more systematic about making some of these work-friends into out-in-the-world friends, maybe even using something like these.

Now I'm flying to Costa Rica, beginning a swoosh that will take me very quickly through a lot of November. With my teams changing, and That Thing happening next week while I'm gone, I feel like I'm posting this from an even more liminal space than an airplane usually is. What country will I come back to?

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-will-be-away-from-my-desk-on-november-6

Yeah... far far away.