The stress is killing me

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Note from Bill: I’m really proud of Understandably, and I’m especially proud of the improvements we’ve made and the good work we’ve done over the last few months. One of the big reasons for our success lately is that I was able to recruit Kate Sullivan to the effort. Kate is a fantastic colleague, an incredibly knowledgable collaborator, and she’s become a good friend—even though we’ve still never met in person. (We talk over Zoom or Streamyard almost every weekday, but she’s in Scotland; I’m in New Jersey.)

Starting next week, Kate will be taking a short hiatus, and she wanted to explain in her own words what’s going on. So with that, I’ll get out of the way.

Here’s Kate:

“The stress is killing me.”

Whether it’s a deadline at work, or making cookies for the bake sale you learned about at the last minute, or trying to organize your taxes, I think we’ve all used this slightly hyperbolic expression at some point.

Stress builds up. You hit fight-or-flight. It feels as if you’re going to sna…