the journal
exploring the diary renaissance through AI, entrepreneurship and modern life, and showing the flawed reality of a professional and personal life ruled by a dozen disconnected apps.
July 20, 2026
Somewhere between "Can everyone hear me?" and "Any other business?", we've all accidentally stopped paying attention. There are few modern workplace experiences…
July 13, 2026
From Pilates instructors to Etsy sellers, modern entrepreneurs are expected to wear every hat. The problem isn't the workload – it's where we keep it all. There…
July 1, 2026
We've never documented our lives more. So why does it feel like we're remembering less? We've outsourced our memories. We just haven't realised it yet. The aver…
June 22, 2026
Why Running a Business Suddenly Requires Twelve Different Apps There is a strange irony at the heart of modern entrepreneurship. We have more productivity tools…
June 15, 2026
Most people do not abandon journaling because they suddenly decide they are not reflective enough. They stop because it feels like too much. Too formal, too tim…
June 8, 2026
I've become slightly obsessed with the fact that so much of modern technology seems to be looking backwards. At a time when we're supposedly racing towards AI, …
June 3, 2026
Most people do not stop journaling because they suddenly decide they are not reflective enough. They stop because the habit gets awkward, heavy, and weirdly hig…
May 25, 2026
There are two types of fictional characters. People who simply experience things, and people who immediately go home afterwards and write six emotionally loaded…
May 18, 2026
For most of history, the diary has been treated like a sealed room. You locked it. Hid it under your bed. Wrote in code if necessary. Entire coming-of-age stori…
May 11, 2026
There is something deeply compelling about a woman with a diary. Not in the pristine, “perfect cursive under fairy lights” sense, but in the much messier tradit…
May 4, 2026
There is something a bit strange about the way we live now. Our days are split across a hundred tiny containers, each one responsible for a different part of us…
April 27, 2026
There’s still a very specific image people have of journaling. It usually involves a notebook, a good pen, and a level of emotional clarity most of us don’t act…