Hot take: For a lot of high-achievers, burnout isn’t always a problem. It is the point.

We want to feel busy and important. And deep down, we hate the idea of being ordinary without the hours.

Optimisation is not self-improvement. In fact, they can even work against each other.

Life can’t be neatly divided into independent parts. To optimise one is almost always to compromise another.

Focus not on how to maximise each piece, but on how to maximise the whole.

The rise of dog culture says less about animals and more about how broken modern adulthood has become.

Check out my slightly cheeky post on this on Substack if you’re interested in this connection: open.substack.com/pub/floating...