Work in Progmess

The Work in Progmess Team August 12, 2025 💌 From the Editor’s Desk Welcome back to Work In Progmess — the newsletter that believes “what you don’t know can’t hurt you” is a terrible health plan and a questionable career strategy. This week, we’re looking at one of the most dangerous games men play:Avoiding the doctor because “it’s probably fine.” It’s the same logic we use for our inbox, our LinkedIn profile, and that awkward career conversation with our boss.What could possibly go wrong? —...

The Work in Progmess Team August 5, 2025 💌 From the Editor’s Desk Welcome back to Work In Progmess — the only newsletter that considers "school supply shopping" a triggering event and thinks everyone should get a syllabus for life by age 35. Here in Georgia, it’s August... a month best described as a furnace with homework. The kids are heading back to school, which means one thing for grownups: a calendar full of other people’s needs and a nagging sense that you were supposed to have figured...

The Work in Progmess Team July 29, 2025 💌 From the Editor’s Desk Welcome back to Work In Progmess — where every generation thinks the next one is doomed, and every inbox is a cry for help. This week, we investigate a shocking event: a 21-year-old willingly speaking into a phone — with his voice. No emojis. No meme reaction. Just raw, unfiltered verbal communication. It’s giving… vintage. — The Mess 📰Headline Shocker 21-YEAR-OLD ACCIDENTALLY MAKES PHONE CALL, ENGAGES IN FIRST REAL CONVERSATION...

The Work in Progmess Team July 22, 2025 💌 From the Editor’s Desk Welcome back to Work In Progmess — where inbox zero is a myth, and work-life balance is just a Pinterest board you saved in 2017. This week, we examine the great lie of modern leadership: that you can "balance" it all.Spoiler alert: You can’t.But you can get aligned. Which is kind of like balance… but without the burnout, the guilt, or the need for a color-coded bullet journal. — The Mess 📰Headline Shocker LEADER ATTEMPTS...

The Work in Progmess Team July 15, 2025 💌 From the Editor’s Desk Welcome back to Work In Progmess — the only newsletter where your personality test results are confidential, but your panic isn’t. This week, we explore what happens when a 12-year-old clicks “likes helping people” on a career survey and gets locked into a 15-year educational pipeline that ends in professional confusion and one very expensive hospitality degree. We’re not saying the system’s broken.We’re saying… let’s take the...

The Work in Progmess Team July 8, 2025 💌 From the Editor’s Desk Welcome back to Work In Progmess — the only publication brave enough to say “I have no idea” and call it leadership. This week, we celebrate a quiet act of rebellion: admitting you don’t have the answer, the plan, or a clue where your kid’s soccer cleats are. Turns out, saying “I don’t know” might be the most freeing sentence you never say out loud. Let’s fix that. — The Mess 📰Headline Shocker DAD FINALLY ADMITS HE DOESN’T KNOW...

The Work in Progmess Team July 1, 2025 💌 From the Editor’s Desk Welcome to Work In Progmess — where personal freedom is just another word for “muting Slack during lunch,” and our favorite fireworks are the ones that happen in group chats. This week, America celebrates Independence Day — a time-honored tradition of cookouts, chaos, and telling your uncle to please stop quoting 1776 at the brisket. But independence isn’t just historical. It’s personal. Like finally quitting that group text...

The Work in Progmess Team June 24, 2025 💌 From the Editor’s Desk Welcome to Work In Progmess — where personal growth is fueled by iced coffee, and petty grievances are a performance metric. This past weekend, the Northern Hemisphere got the Summer Solstice — the longest day of the year. Did we use the extra daylight to reflect deeply and realign our goals? Of course not. We used it to make a list of things that annoy us. This edition’s a little shorter than usual — partly because we didn’t...

The Work in Progmess Team June 17, 2025 💌 From the Editor’s Desk Welcome to Work In ProgMess — where every meltdown is just risk management in disguise. This week, we’re giving out trophies for: Doing a Premortem instead of losing your mind mid-trip Faking confidence until you make eye contact Downloading the latest patch for your internal operating system (includes bug fixes and boundary upgrades) Your inbox deserves more than AI-generated LinkedIn fluff. It deserves the real stuff:...