One way to assess the settings on our creative endeavors (professional, hobbyist, experimental, or any other commitment level) is to think in terms of boxes and tools. In this context, our boxes are the containers in which we put the…
It’s been a really wild year in the AI industry, and I have some thoughts on this category of technologies and its potential, alongside some heuristics I use when learning and thinking about these sorts of tools. What we’re talking…
I struggle sometimes—especially when starting a new project—at intuitively sussing the proper balance between depth and accessibility for whatever it is I’m presenting. These two attributes aren’t inherently in opposition: it’s possible to present complex concepts and topics in a…
Many of the questions I field each day (in my inbox and DMs) are related to habits and how to formulate and implement productive, healthy ones. One aspect of habit-building that’s perhaps counterintuitive, but which I find to be powerful,…
It’s relatively well-known, at this point, that allowing ourselves to feel gratitude is a calming, anxiety-reducing, happiness-inducing, overall psychologically healthful exercise. Reflecting, meditating, praying, journaling—anything we do to remind ourselves of the wonderful people and things and experiences from which…
I’m in the process of rethinking my platform use, moving things around, and reconfiguring various projects and online presences. This process is partly the consequence of a semi-regular desire to shuffle the components of my life and try out new…
I believe that looking for commonalities and shared concerns will typically lead to better outcomes than creating and reinforcing tribal (in the sociological sense of the word) labels, reflexively opposing anyone not of Our tribe and attempting to claim more…
Our lives are stippled with parasocial relationships. We engage with other peoples’ work and feel connected to those people as a consequence. Sometimes these relationships go deeper and we make contact with these makers-of-things, and sometimes we engage with photos of…
I semi-regularly catch myself fixating on minutiae. This is possibly the consequence of my tendency to become absorbed in whatever I’m doing (and to assiduously quash distractions and the temptation of multitasking), though it might also be a component of…
We are (alarmingly but maybe predictably) tumbling into holiday shopping season early this year. Tidal waves of deals are flooding the market as not-good back-to-school sale figures alarm analysts, and as a looming potential global recession triggered by a slurry…