If you’ve been here for a while, you might’ve noticed something… unusual.
I didn’t really post in 2025.
No think pieces.
No design breakdowns.
No carefully crafted “here’s what I learned” threads.
And honestly? It wasn’t an accident.
The truth is: I tend to be very active online when I’m applying for jobs. When I’m putting myself out there. When there’s a reason to be visible. That’s usually when I write, share, explain, document. When there’s an audience — or at least the possibility of one.
And in 2025, I wasn’t applying.
Let’s face it: when you’re not actively looking, it can feel a bit strange to keep posting into the void. Writing long posts knowing that very few people will read them — or that they won’t really matter in that moment — didn’t feel necessary. Or honest.
But here’s the important part: not posting didn’t mean not doing anything.
Quite the opposite.
I was working.
I was drawing.
I was reading.
I was traveling.
I was learning quietly. Building things that didn’t need an announcement. Letting ideas exist without turning them into content. Letting experiences be experiences, not posts.
There’s a subtle pressure in creative and professional spaces to always be visible, always “shipping,” always narrating your progress. But sometimes growth happens off-camera. Sometimes the most meaningful work is the kind that doesn’t immediately translate into a LinkedIn post or a blog article.
2025 was that kind of year for me.
Less publishing. More living.
Less explaining. More doing.
And that doesn’t mean I won’t write again. It just means that silence doesn’t equal stagnation. Sometimes it simply means the work moved inward — or offline — for a while.
If anything, I think that’s worth acknowledging too.
This reminds me — I really need to update my arts page with my 2025 creations.
Silke 