Just a quick note that I’m shifting my publication date to Tuesday from now on, instead of Monday. I know most folks likely won’t notice or care, but providing real-time transparency on what you can expect as a subscriber is deeply important to me (even when it comes to little things like this!), so I wanted to let you know :)

My dear reader.

One of the unexpected gifts of collapse¹ acceptance is the razor-sharp clarity I now have about what I am (and am not) willing to devote myself to in my remaining time on this beautiful planet.

It’s that feeling of sacred urgency I wrote about last month, which inspires within me a desire to move through my days with more rigorous discernment, especially in regard to how I use my time, energy, attention, creativity, body, and money. Simply put: some things are worth it and others are not, and this has never been more starkly apparent to me than it is right now.

As my close friends will attest, collapse acceptance is now the lens through which I view literally everything, and most recently it has helped me to make four decisions, each of which I’ll write about in honest detail below.

1. I decided to quit running (not just while rehabbing my current injury, but for good).

2. I radically changed where my retirement accounts are invested, even though it meant going against everything I learned in the personal finance space over the past 10+ years.

3. I’ve committed to taking (at least) a full year off from air travel.

4. I’m rewriting my job description, and taking a risk on how I earn money in 2026.

Not because I think any of these are the “right” choice (or that there is even such a thing as one correct choice in most instances), but because the umbrella question of this newsletter project (now what?) is one that I think can only be answered in the messy, imperfect specifics.

I love when other people share the day-to-day decisions they make as they wrestle with the big questions of who/how to be in this time, even when I don’t agree with their choice or don’t feel that it would be right for me. We’re all operating from our own social positioning, personal history, specific resource access, etc. So as always please take my sharing in the spirit that it’s meant: as a conversation starter, not a prescription. A transparent look at how I’m trying to make sense of my own life, not a judgement on how you are making sense of yours.

Okay, let’s get into it.