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Creativity

Speed run

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.

June 24, 2025
Speed run

Demo

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.

June 23, 2025
Demo

Groove

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

June 21, 2025
Groove

Tips

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.

June 19, 2025
Tips

Cleverness

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

June 17, 2025
Cleverness

Circles

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

June 16, 2025
Circles

Bad writing

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

June 12, 2025
Bad writing

Tinker Sunday

Tinkering until the morning coffee goes cold.

June 8, 2025
Tinker Sunday

Messy

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.

June 7, 2025
Messy

Mess

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.

June 6, 2025
Mess

Customize

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

June 3, 2025
Customize

Pen

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

May 26, 2025
Pen

Sleepy Sunday

Catching up on some z’s.

May 25, 2025
Sleepy Sunday

Output before input

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

May 20, 2025
Output before input

Happy Sunday

Here's a doodle of a happy sun.

May 18, 2025
Happy Sunday

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