Essays on the questions a single conversation cannot resolve.
Long-form writing from James Graham, founder of Counsel.day, on the questions a single sitting cannot honestly settle. The essays are slower than the rest of the site on purpose; they are the long version of the observations that became the product.
The Tuesday-Thursday problem.
On the schooling decision James and Alex could not settle at the dinner table, the answer was obviously yes on Tuesday and obviously no on Thursday. The difference between the two evenings was not new information; the difference was them. This essay is the long version of how that observation, sat with for long enough, became the founding insight of Counsel.day: a decision worth losing sleep over deserves a season, not a sitting, and the analysis on the final day should read the arc rather than picking the latest point.
New essays publish as the work warrants.
The Journal is not a content-marketing programme; it is the slower piece of writing the product needs. Essays appear when there is something to say, not on a schedule. Subscribe to the RSS feed at /journal/feed.xml to be notified when a new piece is published. James Graham is a data professional; he is not a clinician, and nothing on these pages is therapeutic advice.