Alie Ward

Feats of Strength each week as managing director and defending our edits every episode, our editor Jake Chafee and lead editor Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio.

Nick Thorburn emitted the theme music, and if you stick around until the very end, you know I may tell you a secret.

And this week, a barometer for how well I'm doing or how much I have my shit together has always been my desktop on my laptop.

I don't know if this happens to you.

But I got icons galore.

On my laptop, they start just making a little pile, a stack in the upper right-hand corner.

And I go, oh, God.

It's like you look at your desktop.

There's just files everywhere.

Nothing's in folders.

There's screenshots of shit you don't even care about anymore.

And so I know that when my desktop is a mess, I got to slow down.

I got to take a breather.

I need a nap.

If you relate, I urge you to just make yourself a nice, warm beverage.

sit down, organize that desktop, all right?

You need as much mental clarity as possible now.

I'm talking to myself.

I'm talking to you too.

Also, this one time, I think I told this in another episode, but it's so worth repeating.