From designing systems to redesigning myself

👋 Hello, I'm Jalyn! After 15 years of designing products for others, I realized I’d neglected the most important product: my own life.

Now, I'm applying those same principles: building my full stack — everything from financial systems to decision frameworks — and designing life from the inside out.

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On stress and performance

In 1908, psychologists Robert Yerkes and John Dodson studied the relationship between stress and performance by studying forty Japanese dancing mice.

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Year in review: 2024

I’d started writing this on the first day of the new year, as has been my tradition since 2020.

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Challenge creates change

For years, I found comfort in the structure of a job — good performance and network building made for predictability, a sense of security, and an upward trajectory of what I thought I should be focusing on.

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Motion, not action

It’s easy to get caught up with doing things. The dopamine hits make us feel accomplished, as if we have achieved our goal.

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