Archive - Sarah Seeking Ikigai

The Ikigai of Being Witnessed

Two Elton John songs, one Wedfest and many years of choosing each other

Aug 22 • Sarah Ennett - Seeking Ikigai

Humans Do Not Recharge

On rest and the language we borrow from machines

Aug 15 • Sarah Ennett - Seeking Ikigai

I didn’t know what to write today

On tending purpose and making meaning on ordinary days

Aug 8 • Sarah Ennett - Seeking Ikigai

Anna Goldsmith: The Rest of the Song

A tribute to the Isle of Man singer-songwriter, public servant and my beautiful best friend, told in her own voice, song by song

Aug 1 • Sarah Ennett - Seeking Ikigai

July 2026

The Space Between

On waiting, and having enough reasons to get up in the morning

Jul 25 • Sarah Ennett - Seeking Ikigai

More Capable, Less Free?

The difference between AI helping us do more and helping us choose more

Jul 18 • Sarah Ennett - Seeking Ikigai

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Dashboard

A keeper can log every hour the lamp burned, can she count the ships that didn’t sink? AKA what KPIs miss about the work that matters

Jul 11 • Sarah Ennett - Seeking Ikigai

How To Find Work Worth Doing

A process for finding your hatarakigai, an upgrade to my earlier iteration called how to find your ikigai

Jul 4 • Sarah Ennett - Seeking Ikigai

June 2026

Some AI nourishes you and some just fills you up… on ultra-processed thinking and the purpose it starves

Jun 27 • Sarah Ennett - Seeking Ikigai

What Doctor Who, Semisonic and a shiny new bullet journal taught me about change without erasure

Jun 20 • Sarah Ennett - Seeking Ikigai

Hidden in Plain Delight

Up, up, down, down... on joy engineering, the art of leaving magic behind

Jun 13 • Sarah Ennett - Seeking Ikigai

You’ve Never Seen Your Own Face

On bold frames, blind choices and why you might as well strike the pose anyway

Jun 6 • Sarah Ennett - Seeking Ikigai

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