Here’s what you need to know. I am a millennial. If I am being totally honest, I am the quintessential millennial along every possible dimension. 

I obsessed over The XFiles before binge watching was a thing. I spent 3 hours on a Friday night on Limewire crashing my family computer, hoping to successfully download a terrible quality recording of Orbital live at Glastonbury. I met my first boyfriend in an AOL chatroom about snowboarding. I learned HTML by customizing my Myspace page. 

The internet and I have been BFFs 4-eva. 

Little known fact: you used to be able to visit the Jelly Belly website and have them send you free jellybeans in the mail. I did this once a day for about a year in 1999.

From the beginning, I’ve lived on the vanguard edge of tech and ideas that move humanity forward. I studied physics and philosophy at university because I had a deep desire to understand the fundamental principles of how the world works. 

I moved to San Francisco and built a career developing brands in early-stage tech. I worked in emergent markets using the most innovative tools and techniques to build brands that cast a compelling vision for the future. I worked in digital storytelling, psychedelic science and cannabis, early crypto, space ventures, and an array of experimental communities.

I wasn’t just dazzled by the “new-new.” I devoured books, podcasts, and lectures about ancient wisdom, consciousness, wellness and how to thrive in life. I studied everything from evolutionary game theory to empire building to enlightenment.

I wanted to know how humans evolve and thrive –  individually and collectively – and how to connect the dots from theory to practice in my own life. If you adhere to the quantum belief that there is no objective reality, how does that manifest in personal relationships? Ideas like this fascinated me.  

For all the theory and futurism, underneath it all I was just a girl standing in front of a screen, asking it to love her… so she could make better decisions for herself and the people around her.

 I wanted to bring the magic and wonder of deeper realms of thought into everyday experience. 

Back then, the world felt more stable. We seemed to be on a path of expanding rights and progressing toward a more egalitarian society. I was looking forward to a female US president, human space travel to Mars, and an end to fossil fuel dependence.  

I fully believed the startup ethos of the time: that disruption could be moral, that innovation would bring healing. Millennials were going to fundamentally flip traditional power hierarchies and blast into a future that was better for every living being on Earth. 

But somewhere between Gangnam Style and the NFT ape hype tribes, the story of progress glitched. Reality splintered.

Now, our reality feels fractured. We are drowning in information yet somehow have less insight and understanding about ourselves, each other, and our world than ever. It feels like the moral arc has gone off the rails. 

At some point, the headlines blurred into static. I realized I was no longer just reading the news. I was absorbing propaganda to feed into someone else’s agenda for my life. 

I’m doomscrolling, imagining future scenarios that look like Waterworld or The Handmaid’s Tale. Staring at a blinking cursor, considering the millennial invention of irony culture while watching a deepfake of the US president defecating on American citizens…has left me feeling disillusioned and fearful of what the future might bring. 

So I started writing to decode it. To translate noise into signal, connect the dots, and make sense of this timeline. 

Still Processing began as a way to understand what’s happening in our world today – to work through the inconsistencies, gaslighting, and manipulation in the information we’re consuming and surrounded by on a daily basis. 

I break down big ideas, identify throughlines, and connect this moment with a larger perspective of how to live a life full of agency, and meaning. I explain ideas from physics, philosophy, and business in the context of modern culture – extracting ideas from deep science and decoding them into accessible perspective shifts that increase wonder and appreciation of our incredible world.

My goal is to help people see everyday moments in context—revealing the deeper patterns, restoring a sense of awe, and grounding us in the kind of perspective that makes positive change possible, one choice at a time.

In many ways, this newsletter mirrors the many long and meandering conversations with friends about life, the universe, and everything that are the hallmark of my relationships. 

I’ve come to realize that there are so many people out there just like me who are beyond tired, dizzy from running in circles trying to keep up with a society in a rapid transformational fugue state, swimming in uncertainty, and honestly, feeling pretty alone. 

But one of the lesser noticed, beautiful things about our hyperconnected and always-on culture is that none of us have to go it alone--even if it feels that way sometimes. I write to help us process what’s happening — not to escape it, but to make meaning inside it.

So that’s what Still Processing is. 

A fresh and positive perspective on the absurdity of modern life. 

A place for deep dives, existential scary laughs, reminders that meaning still exists – and that everything holds beauty and is worthy of our awe.

It’s a kind of guidebook for thriving in weird times and something to keep you plugged into the edge of what's next in the zeitgeist.

If you want to pull back the curtain on the algorithm and learn how to cast a counterspell to resist its toxic influence, you can find that here.

If you want to explore how truth fractures in the age of AI and media manipulation without Black Mirror-esque doom vibes, I got you.

If you just want to think more critically, feel more connected, and remember that curiosity is still a superpower — you’re in the right place.

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Still Processing is here to help you navigate the future like a boss. 

You’ll get essays, insights, and cultural analysis delivered straight to your inbox — each one written with care, curiosity, and the intent to leave you a little more grounded and a little more awake than before.

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My hope is that my forays into the wilds of human thought in our time remind you that you’re not alone, and that each of us has the power to make something beautiful out of our life and our world.

The future isn’t something that happens to us — it’s something we’re creating, together.

Together, we can build something more coherent, more compassionate, and more consciously human.

I’m glad you’re here. I love hearing from you!

Let’s do this thing!