Creativity

A speed run forces decisions, cuts the fluff, and brings the real problem into view. You may not solve it—but you’ll always learn something useful.

Demos build trust—not because they’re perfect, but because they’re real. Show the thing. Let people feel it. That’s how you help people get it.

Take a beat. Find the groove. And play something that makes people move.

We underestimate how powerful small tips can be. 5 things I use every day that feel too simple to matter—but quietly changed how I work.

It’s easy to confuse clever with good. They’re not the same. Clever falls apart. Good gets refined into great.

Venn diagrams help me reframe problems—not by revealing the answer, but by changing how I see the question.

Every writer has thousands of bad pages in them. The faster you write them out, the sooner you find the good ones.

Tinkering until the morning coffee goes cold.

A convo about haircuts led me to write about mess—because yeah, even everyday stuff gets messy. Here are 5 highlights from my week that reminded me of that.

Making is messy. Not because you’re doing it wrong—because it matters. Mess isn’t a flaw in the process. It’s part of it.

Customization isn’t about making something better. It’s about making it yours—through use, through care, through marks no one else would make.

I’ve tried many pens. But I keep coming back to this one. Here’s why — and how I make it mine.

Catching up on some z’s.

Make when you wake. Before the world gets in, get something out. Just do it. And do it for you.

Here's a doodle of a happy sun.