It has been over 5 months since I’ve written a blog post and for the life of me, I couldn’t understand why I lost my drive to update anything. After taking a nap a couple of hours after work, it hit me. I’m getting tired of being online. Actually, let me rephrase that. I’m burned out from seeing the constant negativity of the world online and having to be “on” whenever I just want to play around, especially on social media. “Touching grass” has been my band-aid for this but what I’m realizing is, that’s not really enough.

2024 was a doozy and to some extent it still feels like a fever dream. To be honest, looking back on my previous blog posts from 2021 to 2023, they feel like a distant memory. I grew a lot as a designer and started to really learn who I am outside of building my career. I needed the time to step away from that and focus on me.

The first time experiencing a layoff is scary as hell but the way to get through it is to never view any role as your forever job. Whether you get laid off or resign, you won’t be there until retirement. So this means that you need to prepare for that. To help with that, I created a guide you can use. You can download it here.

For the past year or so, I’ve been asking myself “What do you want? You’re making decent money, you don’t need any more things. What are you doing this for? Do you even want to keep climbing the design career ladder? What are you working towards?” It’s interesting how having a near death health emergency has helped me finally have an answer.

A lot of talk about web3 and crypto has been going on all over social media, blogs, and youtube. Some content says it’s a scam, others say it’s going to change the web as we know it, others say it’s terrible for the environment, and others are neutral about it. I won’t be trying to persuade you in any direction. I think we should learn more about new concepts and then form our own opinion on it. I will preface this with, I don’t know everything about web3 but I do understand blockchain and web3 concepts from working in previous startups that focused on using it for their tokens. I want to keep this simple and expand on it in multiple posts because it’s a lot of information to take in at one time.