by Michelle Fitzmaurice | Aug 6, 2026 | Emergence, Observation
The ideal route only works under ideal conditions. Real roads, and real careers, require us to keep reading what lies ahead. There is an ideal line through every corner. You look ahead. Position yourself early. Commit to the turn. Move smoothly through it and come out...
by Michelle Fitzmaurice | Jun 26, 2026 | Emergence, Notes from the Field, Observation
Notes from someone still watering dust By most conventional measures, I was not the person the system was designed to produce. I was a first-generation university student, the first in my family to complete a PhD, and a migrant trying to navigate institutions that...
