Area of life · 10
Work, reputation and how you’re seen
3 cards in this area, and the writing filed under them.
The rules
What you may have learned
No. 05 · IntegrityThe Truth-TellerYou may have learned that keeping the peace matters more than naming what's actually happening, whether that peace belongs to a family, a friendship, a relationship, a community or a workplace, and that the person who speaks up is the problem rather than whatever they spoke up about.→No. 32 · Invisibility and being overlookedThe UnseenYou may have learned that if you were doing the work right, people would notice, and that not being seen means you're not doing enough.→No. 30 · The performed selfThe PersonaYou may have learned that the version of you that gets approved of is the version worth keeping, including the script you were handed early about what your gender was allowed to want, feel or become, and that performing it well enough means nobody needs to see the rest.→
Writing
Filed under this area
Field note21 Jul 2026Silence is load-bearingTaboo decides what can’t be named and stigma decides what we become if we name it, while silence is what holds the whole thing up.→Field note1 Sep 2026A wound to integrityMoral injury doesn’t resolve through rest, only through changed conditions or a coherent exit.→Essay22 Jul 2025How fear shapes designBuilding contact tracing tools at speed, and what it taught me about safety, control and power.→Field note11 Aug 2026The work nobody seesInvisible labour keeps organisations alive while appearing in no job description, and having your expertise ignored is its own kind of injury.→Conversation18 Jun 2025In conversation with The Mindful BrandAsh Stapleton on the ethical investing platform I co-founded, and the question underneath it: who has been excluded from decisions, and how can we bring them in?→
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