A Quiet Look Back at 2025
I’m ending 2025 the same way I started it: thinking, noticing, and trying to be honest with myself. This wasn’t a loud year. It wasn’t a “big announcement” year. But it was a real year—and those matter more than we’re taught to believe. Work That Didn’t Always Show Most of my year was spent doing work that doesn’t photograph well. Fixing systems. Rewriting things so they make sense. Making websites clearer. Making messages easier to understand. A lot of it happened behind the scenes. A lot of it was slow. But it mattered, to real people, not just metrics. I learned that progress doesn’t always look like a promotion or a fresh start. Sometimes it looks like staying steady. Sometimes it looks like learning when to stop pushing. That was hard for me. It still is. Creating Without Turning It Into a Job I didn’t create as much as I wanted this year. But I also stopped treating creativity like something I had to justify. I wrote when I had something to say. I drew when it felt g...
