Practices

Panic rarely comes out of nowhere. It usually lands on a body already short of sleep, running on coffee and eating at odd hours, so whatever tipped it over did not have far to push.

This is not a telling off about your habits. It is that the same argument or deadline arrives very differently at a rested body than at a wrecked…

Stay with a step until it stops being interesting. Not until you have survived it once, but until it is ordinary, and then move up.

Moving on too early turns the ladder into a run of narrow escapes, and each escape teaches that you got out just in time. The marker worth waiting…