A Note From Now I wrote this in 2023, when leaving was still one of the central ways I understood change. At the time, I had recently mad e several enormous decisions about my own life, and I was trying to understand how we know when something has truly run its course. I still believe much of what I wrote here. But I understand the question a little differently now. Not every feeling of discomfort means we should leave. And leaving isn't always the brave choice any more than
A note from now I wrote this several years ago, when Untie Your Lines was still just an idea I was trying to understand. I considered rewriting it for this new version of the site, but when I read it again, I realized I didn't want to. My life has changed since I wrote it. So have I. But the idea at the center of it hasn't. If anything, I understand it better now. So I'm leaving this one mostly as it was written — a dispatch from an earlier version of me, just beginning to un
