About this place
A person
learning in public.
I postponed this for years. You shouldn't.
This is an anonymous record of learning design, noticing patterns, and slowly redesigning a life that looked stable from the outside.
The background
I spent nearly a decade in corporate IT. Good salary, stable job, the kind of career that reads well on paper. But at some point — and I can't pinpoint exactly when — I started noticing that I was putting energy into the wrong things. Not wrong for the company. Wrong for me.
Design kept showing up. In the tools I was drawn to, the problems I volunteered for, the way I thought about workflows and interfaces when nobody was asking me to. I ignored it for a long time because it felt impractical. Like wanting to be an astronaut.
This blog is what happened after I stopped ignoring it.
What gets written here
Three things, more or less:
Design.Visual thinking, craft, and the slow process of learning to see differently. What it feels like to go from IT to design — not as a success story told in hindsight, but as it's happening.
Psychology.Not as an expert — I'm not one. But I notice things about how I behave, how I make decisions, how I resist and adapt and talk myself out of things. I write those observations down.
Career change. What it actually looks like to walk away from something stable and build something new. The uncertainty, the small wins, the doubt, the occasional clarity.
I'm anonymous here — not because I'm ashamed, but because I'm not ready to make this public in the way that involves explaining it to everyone I know. If you found this organically, that's intentional. This is for people who are looking for this kind of thing, not for people who happen to know me.
If something here resonates, that's enough.