Wishing or Doing
I use AI tools for development (in the sense of coding things), but not for much of anything else. I like to keep up with what these systems are capable of, the leverage they provide users, but I wouldn’t apply…
Localized
Something that wasn’t obvious to me (not consciously, at least) until the pandemic forced me to slow down and stay put for a few years is that while our contexts are informed by meaningless happenstance and historical dice-rolls, they’re also…
Quality of the Light
Just after sunrise and just before sunset, there’s a period often called the Golden Hour (or Magic Hour, depending on who you ask) when the light of the sun is just right—a little warmer, a little more diffuse and soft,…
That Was 2025
For me, 2025 will be remembered as a year in which the wheels fell off many of the large-scale structures I’ve long taken for granted, and during which the world became more confounding and dangerous. Lots of interesting stuff happening,…
The Why of It
We’re rapidly approaching New Year’s, where we all make resolutions, many of which don’t stick, and we then castigate ourselves when our grand ambitions don’t persist for more than a few weeks (or days), or fail to materialize at all.…
Planting Seeds, Tending Gardens
There’s a tension between reinvesting in what we already have and investing in possible next-steps. You can think of this as ‘explore versus exploit,’ but I like to think in terms of planting seeds versus tending gardens. We have a…
This Is Me
An age ago, long before I would have reason to wonder whether my creative work might someday make any money, I was challenged by an art teacher to try something new—maybe fewer ninjas and robots, she suggested, perhaps a little…
Bad At Things
When I go too long without experiencing the gut-punch of failure, I know I’m doing something wrong. Feeling like I’m good at things feels good. It’s nice to ease into a flow state, produce work I’m proud of, and know…
The Magic of Consistency
I write every day. Words flow from my brain to my fingers to the keyboard to my screen, tallying somewhere in the 1-5k range, depending on what I’m working on. That’s a fair number of words! Not all of them…
Nudgers
There’s an argument to be made that we should all be creating for AI. Doing so, it’s been posited, is the best way to ensure our work, our thoughts, our history and experiences are well documented by the archivists of the future.…