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On this page, you can scroll back through the archives and view every post I’ve ever written.
I won’t lie, there are a lot. Many of them likely won’t be relevant to you.
But my hope is that by poking around and reading through a few of them, you’ll come across an idea that sparks something for you, makes you think about a problem in a new light.
Or, if you’d rather browse through a curated selection, feel free to start with one of the lists below.
Happy reading 🙂
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Relax, This Won’t Work
What if every time we started a new project, we went in with the mindset that it in all likelihood wouldn’t work?Would it kill our motivation? Lead us to produce a sloppy final product because it was never going to work anyway, so what was the point of trying?Or would...
What We Carry With Us
Every month or so, I pack my life up into a suitcase. It’s a pretty smooth routine by now. The items I bring with me remain relatively static and everything has its usual place where it always goes. Sometimes I surprise myself by packing just a little differently and...
The Hard Stuff
Most of us want to do the work. We thrive on the feeling of meeting a worthy challenge and our best self rising up to face it, and best it. Of fighting through the hard stuff. The harder the hard stuff, the better. Why then, if we take such pride in doing the hard...
Why You Aren’t Coming Up With New (or Good) Ideas
Ideas are nothing without action, so the saying goes.It’s a little glib, but I’m not going to argue with it.It’s also true, however, that action is nothing without an idea, and more often than not, even action and idea together amount to less than we hoped for or...
Shit-Disturbing: A Beginners Guide For Creatives + Visionaries
Let’s face it. You’re a shit-disturber. A contrarian. An instigator. Maybe you’re not getting in bar fights every weekend (although maybe you are…), but if you spend your days creating, whether that’s business, art, or ideas, my guess is that at the root, at least...
Sometimes You Just Need To Collect Data
My family loves games, and we’re competitive about them.We’re not game nerds per se. We don’t buy new games every month, we’re not into complex strategy games, we don’t collectively attend game meetups and wipe the floor with the competition*.*Although that sounds...
A Resolution For Kindness
Like many others, I’m entering this new year — and new decade — with a heady list of goals and resolutions.However, along with our typical business goals, health goals, and personal goals, there’s one resolution I think we could all benefit from making.What if we all...
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