# The Dead Girl Diaries

> Grief doesn't go viral, it goes deep 💙 Fictional diary exploring grief through a tech lens with stories that debug heartache to make sense of this mad world.

## Recent Posts

- [Showing up // shutting down](https://paragraph.com/@thedeadgirldiaries/showing-up-shutting-down): Ever sit across from someone and realize it's already over?

- [When survival means running on legacy code you swore you'd never touch again](https://paragraph.com/@thedeadgirldiaries/when-survival-means-running-on-legacy-code-you-swore-youd-never-touch-again): I know I need to call him. Even as everything inside me is telling me to run.
- [Missing someone isn't a bug to fix. ](https://paragraph.com/@thedeadgirldiaries/missing-someone-isnt-a-bug-to-fix): So you can stop optimizing for grief.
- [Stop trying to optimize for perfection.](https://paragraph.com/@thedeadgirldiaries/stop-trying-to-optimize-for-perfection):  (And start optimizing for resilience.)
- [What to do when someone you love disappears from your life](https://paragraph.com/@thedeadgirldiaries/what-to-do-when-someone-you-love-disappears-from-your-li): We had this beautiful vision, solid plans, thought we'd figured out the product-market fit of our friendship. Then everything came crashing down. Now, I'm sitting in the wreckage wondering if I should pivot or shut down completely. Six months in, I'm still deciding.

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