I’ve always been curious about 3D printers, so last fall when there was a Black Friday deal on a great model, I picked one up. I wondered if it would be...

A simple, shareable logbook for the things that don't belong on a to-do list. Share a group and everyone stays in sync.

...it's about how many times you get back up.

Perfection is boring and we all know it

Pretend you're busy by playing a bunch of app notification sounds. Made by Brian Moore.

Let's get weird.

The art of interacting incorrectly

You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.

Like everyone else on the internet, I’m completely obsessed with Lily Allen’s newest album, West End Girl. Allen wrote and recorded all 14 devastating and...

I haven’t made anything new in awhile and it doesn’t feel good. I’ve been looking after a family member who had surgery, so most of my time has been spent...

Where has all the weirdness gone?

The seven-time Tony winner is writing a book on his later-in-life career change.

The extreme hype surrounding generative AI and technologies like LLMs has been exhausting over the last few years. Coupled with fear-based marketing...

And How I Found My Way Back

What if your career choices were being made by the wrong part of yourself? In this essay, I share a powerful metaphor from my coach: picturing your inner voices as passengers in a car. By moving my…

Game's not over yet, and anything can happen.

A couple of weeks ago I turned 50 years old, which is a sentence my fingers feel strange typing because in my mind I’m still somewhere in my late 20s. Age...

Mariah Carey talks about the time she interrupted her son's Twitch livestream, her rebellious secret unreleased album Someone's Ugly Daughter and her latest album Here For It All. The Tonight Show…

There’s this period of transition between full time employment and being settled in your post-work existence known as detox.

This is my art studio all packed up. It’s all in storage now. Still looking for a new place. 💰 Join the $2 Lunch Club! 💰 This week’s question comes to us...

Singer-songwriter EJAE recorded a couple of voice notes on her way to the dentist which became the mega-hit earworm Golden. EJAE was the voice of lead...

Parenthood reminds me on a daily basis: there’s a big difference between intellectual and experiential knowledge. Lessons from a book or teacher pass...

Hello world. This is my new blog. I’ve been writing it in private for awhile now, so I’m glad you’re here. Check out what it’s all about, then I hope...

Kevin Kelly’s excellent essay about publishing today is that it’s all about self-publishing. These points jumped out at me: The traditional approach to...

When your self-worth is linked to your productivity, you see every activity in your day as either valuable (productive) or not. I have this disease. At...

Epiphanies are rarer than we think.

What did you figure out on sabbatical? What was the takeaway from the 10-day? When you give yourself time and space to ask big questions, you expect an...

Confusing intensity and passion is a common mistake. Intensity is external; passion invokes something inside you. Passion is a call-and-response with...

Years ago I was at Disneyland in California with my family, taking a lunch break between rides. As I sipped my drink and watched the crowd passing by, I...

How does anyone achieve notable success? The answer is always, “They worked hard and got lucky.” Most people emphasize how hard they worked to achieve a...

As someone who works at a keyboard in front of a screen, I live in my head. I rely on facts and logic and narrative and reasoning to form my understanding...

Time to take that idea and turn it into something tangible.

Many years ago, when I first started to work in the advertising industry, we used to have this thing called The Overnight Test. It worked like this: My creative partner Laurence and I would spend t...

Your true self is intensely interested in your real life’s work—but it could give a rat’s ass about anything else. When you pursue a career that pulls...

Persisters is an ongoing series of large-scale portrait paintings depicting trailblazing women in their pursuit of justice at this current time in history.

I started lifting weights about 6 months ago as a complete beginner. Once a week I meet my trainer for a strength workout. On a few occasions I’ve had to...

Writer Ann Patchett describes the idea she has for her next project as a beautiful, wild butterfly fluttering about her mind, a three dimensional miracle...

When you focus on maximizing productivity, you inhibit creativity. In many ways, productivity and creativity are at odds. Productivity is all about...

Blogging is fun, so I’ve started again. Winnie the Pooh said, “I always get to where I am going by walking away from where I have been.” What I’m doing...