Hi, I’m Alistair. I run a digital marketing agency, and I’ve lived with severe anxiety. Lantern grew out of both of those things.
Years ago I taught game design. When my students graduated, work in the field was painfully hard to find, and I watched bright people get pushed toward the first job that would take them, often into careers they’d feel stuck in. I didn’t want that for them. So I started reading everything I could about how people actually build work and lives that fit, including the Designing Your Life framework out of Stanford.
I tried to build a version of this tool back then. It was before AI, the development was brutal, and I burned out and got too sick to finish it.
Eight years later, going through a transition of my own, I needed it again, so I finally built it for myself. Lantern is the thing I wished I’d had: a quiet daily record of what gives me energy and what drains it, so I can put more of the good back in on purpose. I made it public because I doubt I’m the only one who could use it.
It’s early, and it’s honest about that. No fake reviews, no inflated numbers. If you try it and something’s broken or could be better, I genuinely want to hear it: hello@happiness-daily.com.