David Walmsley

AI threatens routine jobs, but skilled trades, care work, arts, and first responders prove human judgment, empathy, and adaptability remain irreplaceable.

Discover the hidden ritual in your daily coffee. Slow down, sip mindfully, and transform your morning brew into a moment of peace and purpose.

Modern life is a blur of notifications, tabs, and to-do lists that mock us with their infinity. In this haze, we search for tools to bring focus, calm, or even just a moment of silence. What we often overlook is that the simplest tools are sometimes the most powerful.

We rarely name it, but we all feel it, a low, restless unease that trails us from morning alarm to late-night scroll. Experts call it “ambient anxiety,” and it’s the cost of living in a world that never powers down.

There comes a time when the weight of your own decisions sits heavier than the expectations of others. For me, that time was in my early forties. The renovation business that once felt like my empire had become a treadmill.