It’s 9 PM. You’re having dinner. Your phone buzzes. A Slack message. You ignore it. It buzzes again. Your partner gives you that look. The invisible leash just pulled.
Category: Mental Health
A Letter to the Hiring Manager Who Never Saw My Portfolio
A heartfelt letter to hiring managers about automated rejections, unseen portfolios, and a broken system that filters out talented candidates before they ever get a chance to prove what they can do.
Just This Once: How Crunch Culture Became Forever
They said just this once. Just until launch. That was three months ago. You’re working 60-hour weeks and can’t remember when you last saw sunlight. The emergency never ended.
The Silence We Keep: Mental Health Stigma in Tech
They ask how you’re doing in stand-up. You want to say you’re struggling, that you barely slept. Instead you say “fine.” Because in tech, we debug memory leaks but don’t mention panic attacks.
Your Body Is Screaming: A Developer’s Guide to Managing Stress
Your jaw is clenched. Your shoulders are tight. Your stomach churns. This constant tension isn’t normal, even though it feels like it. Your body is trying to tell you something.
Your Body Is Screaming: Managing Stress as a Developer
Your jaw is clenched. Your shoulders are tight. This constant tension isn’t normal. Your body is trying to tell you something.
When Home Becomes Office: Reclaiming Your Life from Code
It’s 11 PM and your laptop is in your bedroom again. When did your home stop being a place to rest? The boundary between work and life has vanished, and it’s costing you everything.
Your Brain Has a Decision Budget (And You’re Overspending)
By 2 PM you can’t even decide what’s for lunch. Not because you’re not hungry. Because your brain made 47 decisions before noon and now it’s just… done.
The Empty File: When Overthinking Kills Your Code
Two hours of staring at an empty file. Zero lines of code. When thinking about the perfect solution prevents you from building any solution, you’re trapped in analysis paralysis.
You’re Not a Fraud: Making Peace with Imposter Syndrome
You just shipped something brilliant and all you can think is when they’ll realize you’re a fraud. If 58% of tech workers feel this way, maybe it’s not you. Maybe it’s the system.
