Now
This is a now page Looking ahead After a year where I finally felt like I brought some semblance of stability to my life, for the first time in a very long time I feel like I can take stock and start looking ahead at where I’m going.
Ethan Katzenberg
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The questions you're asking
Years ago, when I was in a tough relationship that wasn’t destined to last, I found myself Googling “How to know if you should end a relationship”. There was a thread on Reddit, and the top response was “If you’re asking this, you’re probably already there”. That stuck with me. With some examination, the questions I’m asking sometimes tell me more than the answers I receive. I’ve found…
About
Hi! I’m a software developer living in London, currently working for Apple, which me and my closest 50 coworkers at Credit Kudos joined together at the same time. Previously I’ve lived in San Francisco working for Bitnami and Loopup, and Winston-Salem, North Carolina where I worked at the Comprensive Cancer Center doing some interesting cancer informatics stuff. In my free time I like…
EMDR and Meditation
Towards the middle of last year, I decided to give EMDR a try, after hitting what felt like an impassable wall in traditional talk therapy. It was incredibly helpful for me, although not the magic bullet I was hoping it’d be. But what I did take away from it was the ability to hold onto and connect with the fleeting images in my head that came up during the sessions.
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Teaching Bravery
On a warm evening recently I was talking with my neighbours over a beer. They’re final-year paramedic students, weeks away from graduating and stepping into the real world. There’s been a question floating around my head that I’ve had trouble defining until I sat down to write this post. It’s whether bravery can be taught. Not learned, but taught. I asked them if their course has changed them, and…
May 2021
Saying the difficult things
During the summer last year, I was doing my annual big hike with a friend. We use these hikes to see more of the country, and inevitably the conversations end up covering every topic under the sun. That day, we’d been talking about communication. In the evening, tucked away in a little cabin near Glencoe, something was rolling around in my head that I couldn’t quite pin down. For the longest time,…
April 2021
March 2021
Reflections on (roughly) 750,000 words
In May 2018, I stumbled upon Buster Benson’s site, where he discusses the Morning Pages idea and journaling for 750 words. The key idea is that you journal every day, and must write (at least) 750 words, or around 3 pages. I’d been journaling on and off in a paper journal for a year at that point, generally maxing out at one or two entries a month. Trying to bring a little more rigour to my…