The Curriculum

11 literary Companions in this category.

• The Waiting Room — How to exist when life is on hold
• The Wrong Turn — Making peace with the path you didn’t take
• The Milestone Hangover — Completion as loss

  This booklet is for people who finally finished the thing. The degree. The project. The album. The manuscript. You should feel triumphant. Relieved. Proud. Instead you feel empty. Unmoored. Lost. Like

• The Meaning of Failure — Collapsing gracefully

  This booklet is for people who are falling apart and trying to do it quietly. You failed. Or you’re failing. Or you’re about to fail. The thing you worked for didn’t happen. The relationship ended. Th

• The Search for Purpose — When ‘follow your passion’ is bad advice

  You’re supposed to have a passion. A calling. A thing that makes you leap out of bed in the morning, eyes bright with purpose. You’re supposed to know what you’re meant to do with your life. And if yo

• The Uncertainty Principle — Making decisions when you can’t see the future

  This booklet is for people standing at crossroads they can’t see past. You’re being asked to make decisions, big ones, life-altering ones, without knowing how they’ll turn out. Move or stay. Leave or

• The Brutal Truth — How to be honest with yourself

  This booklet is for people who lie to themselves. Which is everyone. We all do it. Constantly. Expertly. Necessarily. We tell ourselves stories that make our choices bearable, our relationships accept

• The Forgiveness Math — Letting go of the debt others owe you
• The Gentle Landing — How to be kind to yourself when you mess up

  You’re reading this because you did something. Said something. Broke something. The thing you swore you wouldn’t do, you did it. Again. And now you’re sitting with that specific flavor of shame that a

• How to Human — A recovery manual for the over-optimized

  You’ve been a productivity system for so long that you’re not sure what exists underneath the optimization. You’ve been performing, achieving, optimizing, and hustling. Now you want to stop. Or at lea

• Reset to Factory Settings — Recovering the wisdom you were born with

  Your body came with factory settings. Instincts. Intuitions. Built-in wisdom about hunger, tiredness, pain, pleasure, safety, danger. The settings worked. Then you started overriding them. Now you don