Archive - The Multiple Lives Theory

What if you could test your next life before you committed to it?

A 30-day experiment for finding out what your next life could actually look like.

7 hrs ago • Katie

I didn’t hate my job. I just didn’t want that life anymore.

Leaving a job you don’t hate, and how to know when fine is not enough. The leaving story needs a villain. When there isn’t one, you stay.

Aug 23 • Katie

Why a good job can still feel wrong

Misery with a reason is manageable. Misery without one makes you the problem.

Aug 20 • Katie

100 days of working for myself: everything nobody claps for

On the applause that arrives on the day you need it least.

Aug 16 • Katie

How to explain a career gap on your CV without apologising for it

The gap is the most interesting thing on your CV. So why do we format it like an accident?

Aug 13 • Katie

Four of My Interests Became Income Streams. Here's What I Learned.

My 4-step process to go from a decade of abandoned projects to the ones that could actually earn (plus the Claude prompt that finds them)

Aug 11 • Katie

What can you do badly for a year? (a better filter for what is your passion)

On the question that predicts what you'll stay with, which is not the one you keep being asked.

Aug 9 • Katie

How I stacked 4 income streams to replace a salary

I make a living. I don’t have an income.

Aug 6 • Katie

The 48-hour rule for the decision you keep re-opening

I spent two weeks pricing something nobody had bought yet.

Aug 3 • Katie

Nobody warns you that reinvention is boring

Eight months of creative freedom, and the main feeling is boredom

Aug 2 • Katie

July 2026

Explaining a nonlinear career in linear language

On the question that stopped working, and what the person asking actually wants.

Jul 30 • Katie

New to The Multiple Lives Theory? This is the map: what this is, who it's for, and the essays to read first.

Jul 30 • Katie

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