All field notes.
An irregular series of long-form essays on attention, work, and the small repairs that pull focus back from the screen.
One bag for one year: the Halt Outdoors day pack.
Fifty-two weeks of Pacific Northwest weather. Three things broke, one thing surprised me, and one rule of gear-buying I'm not going to forget.
The thirty-dollar fix for the wooden-desk knee.
Eighteen months of low-grade pain. A doctor's visit I should have made twelve months earlier. The single piece of gear I now refuse to work without.
I spent $30,000 on small luxuries while telling myself I was bad with money.
Three years of monthly Amazon receipts. The diagnosis was not what I thought, and the way out was not budgeting harder.