Stepping Off the Treadmill

On a year of chasing reach, and the decision to stop. This letter was originally published on Substack , May 2026. I'm reposting it here for the archive. Hello from a very warm Kyoto. The cherry blossoms have been and gone for weeks now (I missed the peak this year, somehow!) and the city has settled into that lovely short window of time before the cicadas turn the volume and the pressure up;…