The Inevitable Post-Project Collapse

Call it what you will, it’s always a bit rough.

Matthew Maniaci
Thing a Day
Published in
3 min readMay 2, 2024

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A gray tabby cat lying down, asleep. It is lying on a fuzzy blanket, its paws outstretched.
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At work, I just got done with a major project. It was the sort of thing that required over a dozen people across all departments in our agency six weeks to accomplish, and as the person leading the charge, I got the stress of wrangling all of it.

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Matthew Maniaci
Thing a Day

I write about everything from my experience with mental illness to politics to philosophy. Much of my so-called "wisdom" is from Tumblr dot com. He/him/his.