On the Shortness of Light

Essays on the finite career, and the art of being present for it.

A career feels long from the start of it. It is not. It is a fixed and shrinking amount of light.

You will spend most of your waking life at work. The only real question is whether you will be present for any of it. A quiet reckoning with the arithmetic of a working life — forty years of Mondays — and an argument not for despair, but for focus.

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