Waterfall, agile, AI. The methodology kept changing. The requirement to think carefully before building never did, and the tools that generate code in minutes cannot tell you what to build, who for, or what done actually means.

I've never been able to answer "where do you see yourself in five years?" Not because I lack direction. Because I navigate differently. This is what that looks like, and why it works.

Play didn't fade from adult life. It was removed, given moral weight, and rebranded as something only children need. The neuroscience has thoughts about that.

Several burnouts in, no longer sure how to make it different, I watched a friend get diagnosed and recognised something. Not a triumphant story. An honest one.