Coping methods for uncertain times.

Feather-like plant at the Nezu Museum in Tokyo, December 2023. Photo by author.

The past 18 months working in tech have been sad and unsettling. My LinkedIn feed has been a steady stream of green Open for Work banners and posts by connections and connections of connections sharing that they’d been unceremoniously let go due to yet another round of layoffs at yet another tech company. A lot of industries go through ups and downs (I suppose this is the nature of business) but I don’t think the human toll…