Before I Forget

I went to a client meeting today. Alone. The CFO of the company was explaining the day-to-day functioning of their manufacturing business when he looked at me and said, “You’re a young girl. You won’t understand all this.” I smiled. I didn’t say anything. Mostly because I did understand what he was saying. The sentence stayed with me. Not because I was offended by the fact that I didn’t know everything about manufacturing. I don’t. He has probably spent more years running a c

I have become one of those people with a routine. Not because I have somewhere to be every morning, but because the absence of one turns out to be surprisingly difficult to romanticise. Every productivity influencer on the internet will tell you routines are liberating. They reduce decision fatigue. They help you optimise your day. They create discipline. I, on the other hand, have discovered that routines are mostly useful because they stop you from accidentally opening Link

Somewhere in the world, a little girl is folding scraps of old cloth because she doesn’t have a sanitary pad. Somewhere else, another stays home from school because someone convinced her that bleeding makes her dirty. And somewhere in between those two realities is me, sitting in my OBGYN’s waiting room, staring at a noticeboard covered in pink paper and frilly ribbons reminding women to book their smear tests, get the HPV vaccine, and look after themselves. Every time I walk