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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 🙂
Best Of The Blog
Complete Archive
Creative Cruxes: The Key Required to Unlock Any Creative Project
Every creative project hinges on a key (often hard to spot) challenge that must be solved for it to succeed. Here’s how to spot it.
Creative Tire Chocks: How to Identify & Remove the Tiny Obstacles Keeping You Majorly Stuck
When a creative project has stalled, the reason is almost always a tiny impediment wedged in just the right spot. Here’s how to find & remove them.
The Last Gatekeeper
In the end, there is only one gatekeeper that must be won over, whether by reason, cunning, force, or persistence.
Thinking In Drafts: A Subtle Mental Shift to Unlock More & Better Creative Work
In many creative fields, a painful, years-long revision process is entirely normal. Why don’t more of us approach our work this way?
The Neglected (But Essential) Facet of Creative Productivity
Most productivity advice focuses on taking more action and getting more done. But it overlooks the other essential component of true productivity.
Directing Your Energy Wisely
Brute force and maximum pressure are rarely the best problem solving strategies. Which as a creator with limited resources, is a good thing.
Triage: A Necessary Skill for Progressing in Your Creative Career
Before powering down at the end of every day, I review my task list and bump everything I didn’t complete to a future date, often the next day. On good days, it’s a small number of non-urgent or unimportant tasks. On less-than-good days it’s a large number of both...
Triangulation: The Math Equation Behind Creative Clarity
The mathematical method for finding clarity and determining your next best step toward your creative goals.
Acorn Picking: How to Spot Ideas & Opportunities Hiding In Plain Sight
Ideas are all around us. The problem is we don’t know how (or where) to look for them. Here are four methods to help.
Pushback Rallies: How to Do More with the Creative Opportunities You’re Given
We all want to wait to take our shot until the circumstances are perfect. The greats, however, know that they never will be. And that’s fine.
Cooking with Simple Ingedients
What do bread, whiskey, balsamic vinegar and creative work all have in common? The magic is in their simplicity… you just need to know how to harness it.
Getting Past Your First Creative Failure
If you let it, failure will take the fangs out of your work… Or, you can take the fangs out of failure.
The Right Work
For all its importance, the right thing to be working on is hard to spotThe right work is rarely obviousRarely urgentRarely appearing to move the needle The right work is that for which the outcome is irrelevant For which the benefit is simply creating it For yourself...
All the Downside, None of the Upside
When it comes to the upside of your creative work, it’s hard to have your cake and eat it too.
The Secret to Interesting Work (Is Staring You in the Face)
If you want to make your work more interesting, start by making the world around you more interesting. Here’s how.
(Re)Finding Your Creative Rhythm
We all have an optimal rhythm at which we do our best work. Finding and maintaining it, however, isn’t always easy.
The Creative Poker Game
Pursuing creative work is a lot like buying into a game of poker, where the stakes are both a lot lower… and a lot higher.
On Finding Yourself (And Why it Matters as a Creator)
If you know where (and how) to look, the world is full of landmarks pointing you in the direction of your creative potential.
The Upside of Non-Competitive Games
What if higher quality competition actually limits your creative potential?
A Two-Step Approach to Engineering Your Next Lucky Break
Every creative project needs a bit of luck in order to succeed. But you don’t need to wait for your luck to come to you.
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