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The Year I Finally Faced My Debt. AI-Generated.
The post I stopped opening For most of one long Johannesburg winter, I did not open my post. The envelopes with the little windows went straight into a drawer in the kitchen, and the drawer got harder to close each week. I told myself I would deal with it once things calmed down, but things did not calm down, because I was the thing that needed to calm down and I could not. I was juggling three store accounts, a personal loan and a credit card, and every month the minimum payments crept up while my salary stayed exactly where it had always been.
By Josh Maraney17 days ago in Journal
I Started My MSW This Week
This Past Week, I started my Masters Degree in Social Work, something I have wanted for many years and something that I have been working towards since 2023. This is something that means the world to me, in 3 years I will walk the stage getting my MSW completing the journey of academics that I've wanted to re-write for years. That I was told I would never, by a guy who couldn't care less about me. I changed that story real fast. I worked my butt off for my two college degrees and I'm building something that nobody can touch. I know that all of the effort I am putting in is setting me up for a wonderful life.
By Amanda Nicole21 days ago in Journal
When You Can't See The Wood For The Trees
We often have problems with things and spend so much time and effort trying to find the solution. We cannot see things that when we see them look so simple. Usually in a work situation you can ask for help from a work colleague and as soon as they come to help you with the problem you see the answer that has maybe been staring you in the face.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 23 days ago in Journal
The Cheapest Genius I've Ever Used
I first heard the name DeepSeek the way I hear most tech headlines, half-scrolling past it on my phone while doing something else entirely, catching only the part where a Chinese AI startup had apparently rattled the entire industry and wiped a genuinely alarming amount of value off some very famous tech stocks in a single day. I remember thinking it sounded like exactly the kind of story that gets overblown within a week, filing it away as background noise and going back to whatever I was actually doing. Then it kept coming back. Friends mentioned it in passing. Writers I follow started comparing notes on it. And I kept nodding along in conversations about a tool I had never actually opened myself, which eventually started to feel a little ridiculous even to me.
By Zohan Khan25 days ago in Journal
The Best Grammar Checking Tools for Medium Writers in 2026 (Tested on My Own Articles)
I used to think grammar checkers were a nice-to-have. Then I republished an 8-minute article with a glaring "their" instead of "there" in the second paragraph, watched the read-through rate quietly drop, and never made that mistake again. On Medium, where readers decide in the first three lines whether you're worth their time, a sloppy sentence isn't a small thing. It's the difference between someone finishing your piece and someone bouncing to the next tab.
By Zohan Khan26 days ago in Journal
Experience Is the Only Teacher I Ever Had
Experience Is the Only Teacher I Ever Had I used to think advice was enough. My father would sit me down, my teachers would lecture me, my friends would warn me — "don't do this," "be careful of that," "you'll regret it." I nodded every single time. I even believed I understood. But understanding words and understanding life turned out to be two completely different things.
By Zohan Khan27 days ago in Journal
