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Mid 2026. A little reflection was in order, and oh boy, was it needed. But before I go further, let me address the elephant in the room: If you have read me recently, you could be mistaken in thinking that I blame the system for everything. That’s not my aim. We’re not absolved from everything.…
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6:14 on her phone. Then 6:19. She dozed off. Next time she looked: 11:52 AM. The hallway was pitched in a darkness that belonged to midnight, not late morning. She checked the phone again, half expecting a glitch. It held firm. Outside, the sky was black. She checked the study clock, then her laptop. All…
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There is a story you tell yourself to make sense of things. School didn’t prepare you for the real world. Then the real world promised guides, but the guides were hard to find, and when you found them, they didn’t know your terrain. So the structure fails you quietly, repeatedly, and the story writes itself:…
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“Too big to fail“. We say it about banks. A bank gets reckless, starts to collapse, and someone rescues it anyway. Not because it earned it. Because too much now depends on it staying open. That’s what happens to any institution once it gets large enough to be worth protecting. You’ve felt the same reflex…
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A few months before the role disappears, there usually are signs. A routine meeting gets cancelled for no reason. A project we’re on gets quietly handed sideways. An email thread we used to be copied on no longer includes us. We explain the signs away on the company’s behalf. Something urgent. Busy quarter. Last-minute change.…
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There is one website I’ve been mourning for more than a decade now. I was on it between 2011 and 2012, and I still keep its ashes in a proverbial urn. 43 Things. Apparently, it was a nod to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Specifically, a reference to the answer to the Ultimate Question…
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Something starts to shift when you pay attention long enough. The script you were handed, school, degree, career ladder, institutional safety net, all of it stops feeling like the way to go. Things stop adding up. The life promised doesn’t materialise. I’m Rudiano. Across the Rudiverse, whether that’s the essays at rethinkcreative.online, the analytical deep…
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I was a sole trader in the UK for years. It wasn’t exactly simple, but its logic was legible. You build something, and you get taxed on what it earns after costs are deducted. The structure had friction, but it had a shape you could work with. When I looked seriously at continuing that in…
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“Am I dying? That was the first thought. I was standing on the polished marble floor of the lobby, surrounded by glass that shot forty-two stories into the sky, and my lungs simply refused to expand. My chest tightened, my heart hammering against my ribs like a trapped bird, and a cold sweat broke out…
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We don’t have winters here in Guadeloupe. It’s a small Caribbean island of almost 400,000 people, affectionately called “Gwada” by the locals. We have two distinct seasons: the dry Carême and the wet Hivernage. But no matter the month, we have sun all year round and beaches on every side. One of my favourite places…