When I lived in Vancouver, rock climbing was my biggest hobby. ​My friends and I would climb outdoors pretty much every weekend, indoors at one of the local gyms two or three times a week, and plan trips to climb in the US a few times a year. ​While it’s now been...

Every project reaches a point where the road runs out. Then, it’s time to bushwhack.

When I opened up the weather forecast earlier this week, this is what was waiting for me. Of course, I knew Texas in July and August was hot. But this? To a cold-blooded Canadian like me, this reads as more of a cruel joke than a weather forecast. And yet, it appears...

The things we create all have the same basic needs, challenges, and inevitable, unavoidable annoyances.

The paths we travel are rarely the most direct or efficient routes to our destination. So why do we follow them?

Like most relationships, expectation will slowly suffocate your creative work if you let it. Here’s what to do about it.

We all have those creators whose work we wish we could emulate. But while we can’t do what they can, we can do something else. And it’s enough.

The crucial difference between being able to draw a crowd, and inspiring legions of fans to follow you on tour.

Try as we might to preserve our perfect exterior, our work’s (and our own) utility only begins once it picks up some scuffs.

If you want to do better, more consistent creative work, it helps to understand the raw materials required to create it.

We tend to obsess over our our destination & the routes we might take to get there. But all that is useless without knowing where we’re starting from.

The work required to grow a creative business is rarely creatively fulfilling. But that doesn’t mean you need to ignore your creative instincts altogether.

The opportunities with the most potential upside seem illogical, absurd, or doomed to failure. Here’s when (& why) you should pursue them anyways.