SJ Greaves

Every system has edges. Every process has pauses. Every life has thresholds. And most people stare so hard at the structure, they miss the rhythms that animate it, the subtle intelligence that lives not inside the pattern, but in the intervals that hold the pattern together.

We spend so much of our lives behaving as if time is a promise rather than a possibility. We move through our days with this quiet, unconscious arrogance that tomorrow will greet us just as faithfully as today did. We plan. We schedule. We future-proof. We stack our lives with commitments that make us feel safe, or important, or productive.

Change used to be a project plan and a timeline. A neat Gantt chart pinned to a wall. Executives gathered around tables, nodding at boxes and arrows while quietly praying the humans involved would simply comply. Then the world cracked open.