Editor’s note: I wrote this in either March or April of 2019, I reckon, and recently found it languishing in…
Tag: creativity
No. 73 | Seven places you can find inspiration
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Learn thinky things
Folks seem to like my latest bit of advice for aspiring designers: Learn Thinky Things. I coined this advice (with…
Give him some room
When it comes to maintaining a productive, creatively fulfilling life, the simple answers are terribly alluring. I’ve swooned to the…
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, or…
Islands and icebergs
Spent all week working on something and I just trashed it. Wasn’t coming together. Hate to do it because you…
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 they’d…
Being the thing
Recently finished reading Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. I probably should have read it before I…
It doesn’t keep
Reflections on how I use paper and notebooks.