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In the pit

Editor’s note: I wrote this in either March or April of 2019, I reckon, and recently found it languishing in…

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Published January 12, 2023
Tagged creativity, making, metaphors, music, productivity, thought technologies

No. 73 | Seven places you can find inspiration

2 | Tractor Supply Company (any)

Published January 7, 2023
Tagged creative habits, creativity, inspiration, writing

Learn thinky things

Folks seem to like my latest bit of advice for aspiring designers: Learn Thinky Things. I coined this advice (with…

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Published September 17, 2022
Tagged Adobe, creativity, design, design tooling, Figma, productivity, tools, ux design, UX writing, YGEFSK

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…

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Published May 16, 2022
Tagged creativity, habits, productivity

The effortful way

Job one is doing the job.

Published July 28, 2020
Tagged creativity, productivity, quotes, writing

Long paragraphs

“So often the long paragraphs I write in life are responses to Facebook posts, or reply letters to someone, or…

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Published January 18, 2020
Tagged creativity, inspiration, productivity, social media, writing

Islands and icebergs

Spent all week working on something and I just trashed it. Wasn’t coming together. Hate to do it because you…

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Published January 17, 2020
Tagged creativity, productivity, writing

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…

Continue reading Sometimes the box is more fun
Published January 3, 2020
Tagged content ecosystems, creativity, design, diagramming, ecosystem maps, Jon Kolko, UX

Being the thing

Recently finished reading Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. I probably should have read it before I…

Continue reading Being the thing
Published December 10, 2019
Tagged creativity, On Writing, productivity, Stephen King, writing

It doesn’t keep

Reflections on how I use paper and notebooks.

Published December 2, 2019
Tagged analog productivity, Baron Fig, creativity, Doane Paper, Field Notes, GTD, ideation, legal pads, notebooks, Paper, productivity, writing

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