Rebecca Foley Askew

For high-acheivers who can't name the decision they're actually circling around (yet).

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July 13, 2026

Dark storm cloud with text overlay reading "A threshold spins. A crisis stops." — illustrating the difference between a crisis and a turning point

Is this a crisis or a turning point? Two Doors That Look the Same From the Outside At twenty-one, I had two pieces of paper. One said law school. The other said grad school. Both had pros and cons lists so long they’d stopped being useful and started being ritual — something to do with […]