When it comes to maintaining a productive, creatively fulfilling life, the simple answers are terribly alluring. I’ve swooned to…
Tag: creativity
The effortful way
Job one is doing the job.
Long paragraphs
“So often the long paragraphs I write in life are responses to Facebook posts, or reply letters to someone,…
Islands and icebergs
Spent all week working on something and I just trashed it. Wasn’t coming together. Hate to do it because…
Sometimes the box is more fun
One of the first times I presented on ecosystem mapping, an attendee shared an image of their own map…
Being the thing
Recently finished reading Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. I probably should have read it before…
It doesn’t keep
Reflections on how I use paper and notebooks.
Scratchpad
An ode to the tools that help us remember.
The Only Bad Idea in Brainstorming
Going through some old scans and found this card from when I was working on a talk about brainstorming.…
A Different Kind of Freedom
One of my favorite quotes of late, on freedom: Like most Americans, I shrink from the thought of subservience…