About Venvy Lab

For the last decade or so, I’ve been conducting a quiet experiment.

Not in a laboratory. In my own life.

I stopped watching the news.
I gradually stopped spending time on social media.

I stopped chasing every trend, every optimization strategy, and every new thing that promised to improve my life if I would only give it a little more money, attention, or mental bandwidth. 

Instead, I started paying closer attention.

I read a lot more books.
I walked more trails.
I spent more time outside.
I traveled when I could.

I became a lot more interested in the difference between things that make life richer and things that just make life louder. 

The results have been impossible to ignore.

I feel calmer.
More present.
More informed, strangely enough.
More connected to the things that actually matter.

Meanwhile, much of the world seems to be moving in the opposite direction.

More notifications.
More noise.
More outrage.
More content.
More pressure to optimize, monetize, document, and share every aspect of our lives.

A few years ago, I was climbing Kilimanjaro. Still one of my proudest moments, and one of my favorite places to have tread on this entire Earth. It is so beautiful. The landscape changes literally every day, and they are all so wild and different. 

Along the way though, I noticed some workers installing this giant, essentially internet cable, super high on the mountain. I asked what it was and my guides literally told me they were building it because people want to post their summit pic from the summit.

From the summit.

From the summit?

From the summit?!

It’s not the cable.

I mean, it is a little bit the cable. There are so few spaces left that are free from the grid. Do we really have to add a giant internet cable to such a fantastic swath of nature?

But even more than that, it was how normal everyone seemed to think this was.

Standing on one of the most extraordinary mountains in the world, after working so hard to get there, my first thought was: can’t we just be here?

Can’t we have the experience first and post the photo later?

Can’t we just have one thing for ourselves?

It’s a moment that has stayed with me because it perfectly captures something I’ve been noticing for years.

Not every problem needs more technology.
Not every moment needs documentation.
Not every part of life benefits from optimization.

I don’t have all the answers. I just…notice things.

Venvy Lab has grown out of those observations.

It’s a place for thoughtful women who are increasingly suspicious that modern life may be asking a little too much of our attention.

It’s a place to explore beautiful mail, books, travel, practical ideas, and small acts of quiet rebellion that help life feel a little more like our own.

I’m not a wellness influencer. I doubt I’ll ever be invited to give a Ted Talk. 

I’m a reader, a traveler, a hiker, a builder, and lifelong student of human behavior.

Mostly, I’m just someone who pays attention.

Venvy Lab is where I share what I’ve noticed.

If you’re noticing some of the same things, you’re in the right place.

— Kori