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The beans were a bit undercooked. The beans had a little too much tomato paste. You hated the artificial tanginess. The chapo was a bit hard, chewy. The avocado was a bit underripe and the stone was a bit big. You cut yourself while dicing onions, a small knick. Ruefully, you think to yourself, that …

Let’s start with some angst

A few weeks before Christmas, my supervisor started talking more and more about balance and burn out. We have informal chats which end up becoming a way to get a bit of our work done, “Marundu, knick two minutes of your time?”, which end up becoming twenty or more minutes. This particular chat was a …