the process of coming back to my life after sabbatical was as hard, if not harder, than the process of going offline! and that’s wild because i thought the process of going offline was one of the hardest things i’ve ever done.
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this feels a bit like an unthinkable thought but i’m gonna think it out loud and hope to not get destroyed.
Read more...at some point last year, me and my partner, david, decided that we wanted to start moving towards living together. but we wanted to do figure it out in a way that felt good to us and our partners. so we decided to do some experimentation! i can’t remember which one of us threw out the idea to do an experiment and it doesn’t really matter because experimentation is my middle name so i was pumped.
Read more...i think some of my most significant lessons from this sabbatical were in the ramp into and out of it. i have never taken this amount of time (4 weeks) off in the middle of regular working times. i’ve had 3 or 4 weeks off during a time when lots of other people were also taking time off (like during school summer vacations or adding a week or two to the regular two weeks off i got from a job over winter break). but taking 4 weeks off during regular work time was new. not only that, the 4 weeks i took off happened during some of my busiest time of the year as a consultant: fall. it’s been my experience the last few years of consulting that as people come back from summer time, the amount of requests and also attention to ongoing projects goes way up.
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