Finn Schubert

Protecting My Creative Energy No Matter What

Being my creative energy's mama bear sometimes means writing a little CSS.

Invoking the Creative Self

Creative work is always a dance between form and void.

How to Make a Personal Website in Five Increasingly Existential Steps

A surprisingly practical guide, because everyone deserves a personal website.

Cultivating Audacity

Comments on a Zen koan from the Book of Serenity (Case 4: The World Honored One Points to the Ground) and how it spoke to me about creative audacity.

Calibrating Your Sharing: A Nerdy Exploration

Another mini-zine inspired by Kening Zhu's Sharing Space Camp class. This one looks at calibration of clinical tests to explore how we might calibrate our sharing choices.

Received and Subtly Answered: Online Sharing as Liturgy

Another mini-zine inspired by Kening Zhu's Sharing Space Camp class!

Better Metaphors Studio

Writers deserve to have the experience of completed physical work more often. So often, we either share our work online, perhaps in a blog or newsletter, where we're never "done." Better Metaphors Studio is a little online shop, but it's really a place for writers to finish small things.

Exploring Ways of Knowing

A work in progress – the beginning of a slide deck

4 Metaphors for Strategy

That aren't levers or bridges.

Substack Really, Really Scares Me

Many people say that writers can make more money elsewhere, or even that Substack is actually bad at paid newsletters. But I'll leave that aside because I'm actually concerned about something else. The Substack writers no one talks to for this kind of article.