Everything you missed in February from Hold That Thought

Here is everything I shared in the Hold That Thought weekly newsletters throughout February 2025 — all the links from last month to turn overthinking into expert thinking:

• “The broken things in our lives are constantly charging interest.” — David at Raptitude has some thoughts on what to do about it
• American media theorist Douglas Rushkoff on how to become an agent of care when the world feels overwhelmingly broken
• Another fantastic post by David Spinks on navigating career lostness
• What if clear thinking is overrated? Here's Paras Chopra on how to be a messy thinker
• Substack writer Isabel on knowing what you truly want
• The Problem With Wanting Less, by Substack writer What Ever Happened
• I've been overthinking email scheduling for years. It's nice to know that I'm not alone. Here's Wes Kao on the Unspoken Power Dynamics of Calendly
• “Use the tools you’ve acquired to create the impact you want to have.” — and other great bits of career change advice from IMD experts
• Even if you're not contemplating a career change today, chances are you will be someday. You need to start with this essential tool now

If all that was a lot to take in…

Get the bite-sized version of Hold That Thought. You'll see everything above, but with more context and in smaller, more digestible chunks in a very short email every Thursday. Each week in the newsletter I also include at least one underthinking link…something small and easy to enjoy. Such as this satisfying tesselation kit or these Text Particles

Here's selected new content from me in February:

• “We're taking all our wonky pots of nerves spinning there on our anxiety wheels, mashing them up, and reshaping them into our excited mugs.” — How I'm reframing my thoughts about presenting in front of others
• Three years ago I dared myself to come up with a list of 100 wants. It was a game-changer, but what I did next mattered even more. Revisiting my 100 wants list
• I've been collaborating with ?? Meltem (UX Career Coach in Barcelona) all month to create a program for supporting UXers who want to transition to other careers. We're meeting with people over the next two weeks to build the first cohort. If leaving UX is on your mind, it's not too late to get the targeted help you need in a program designed JUST FOR YOU…But you have to act fast!

And if you're contemplating a different kind of change in your career or other area of life and want to take a step toward that, let's have a quick chat about it!

That's it for February! What was yours like?

Happy March,

Kim

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