There’s a certain ease to life when things simply work as they should. You wake up, get on with your day, and nothing feels unnecessarily heavy or chaotic. While it’s tempting to credit luck for those smooth stretches, they’re usually the result of quiet effort happening in the background. Small actions, repeated often, have a …

There’s a particular kind of thinking that happens when you’re not trying to think at all. It usually turns up when you’re doing something mildly pointless, like rearranging items on a desk or scrolling without really reading. The mind relaxes its grip and starts wandering, pulling in whatever fragments happen to be nearby. During these …

It’s strange how the mind behaves when it thinks no one is paying attention. You might sit down intending to do one small thing and suddenly find yourself ten thoughts away from where you started. That’s usually how my best ideas fail to appear and my most pointless ones take centre stage. I once opened …