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.
Exploring Ways of Knowing
A work in progress – the beginning of a slide deck or zine about how we know what we know. Often, collaborating across very different contexts or workplace cultures can be challenging due to mistrust stemming from different beliefs about ways of knowing – although the issues are rarely discussed in these
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.
What do you believe happens to ideas?
A picture is worth a thousand words...
Or do ideas work like this?
An umbrella called "mental blocks"...
Be ruthless in discerning what works for you
Now is a time to get deeper in our understanding of what is easeful for us. Be ruthless in discerning what works for you. Separate that which is uncomfortable because it is on your growth edge from that which is not yours to do. Perhaps the ultimate "productivity hack&
Is my blue your blue?
Who knew an Ikea rug would spark such an existential crisis? Ours is a color-block rug, with stripes loud enough for a child’s room, but sophisticated enough for the living room. (We should know — we’ve had the rug in both places. Right now, it’s in the
Sequencing
I’m a huge fan of Michelle Warner’s Sequence Over Strategy podcast. Her newsletter is great, too. She chooses stories from her own life to illustrate her main points about business design. Doing things in the right order is more important than doing them perfectly. She also emphasizes understanding
Welcome to Workflows Before Rainbows
Today I watched the Steve Jobs Apple iPhone launch video after hearing Nancy Duarte’s TED talk explaining that all great presentations have the same structure: they move back and forth between the current state and the possible future, which helps the listener to make the shift to the future