Coulda woulda shoulda
Hi friend, I’m in an odd place of intentional professional procrastination. I have leads I am not quite following up on, potential workshops I am not yet...
A little Christmas nest
Hi friend, I’ve decided to embrace my inner BCB — that’s Basic Christmas Bitch. Now, I admire the Spooky Girls and the GHB’s — Gothic Halloween Bitches. I...
A man with a different life
Hi friend, I’m near Tucson as I write this, visiting at my dad’s place in the general spirit of celebrating Thanksgiving. I am doing this before Thanksgiving...
A Typical Week for a Great Many People
A typical week for a great many people Hi friend, I’ve been in a tunnel all week. Figuratively, of course — I say of course because, as a broad category,...
The Lonesome Crowded Westin
Lonesome Crowded West Writing regularly helps me get more smarterer because I’m constantly looking up words and concepts to see if my understanding matches...
All went well despite me
Hi friend, I don’t smell very good right now. I showered — too long, per the standards of anyone I’ve ever lived with, as is my custom. I didn’t put on...
Big King Energy
Hi friend, One of my favorite things to do as a public speaker is improvise something that draws an explicit connection between my talk and another session...
Learn thinky things
Hi friends, Folks seem to like my latest bit of advice for aspiring designers: Learn thinky things. I coined this advice (with an unconscious assist from...
An excuse to buy more gear
Hey friend, Sometimes the answer is so obvious and it took so long to get there that you want to smack your head and yell “Yadoy!” I nearly yadoyed myself a...
Oh, to be unreachable
Hi friend, I would have a healthier relationship with technology and social media — and be healthier in general — if it were easier to take the phone off the...
Logic versus (brain) chemistry
Hey friend, Me, I’m sad. But also not? Life is happy! That's what I'm telling myself, because it's true. In a funny place where I’m feeling low, just right...
Activities I Enjoy in the World
Hi friends, I woke up with a horrible mid-aughts acoustic alternative song in my head. Not that one, the other one. I vaguely recall hearing it a month or so...
I’m not confident I know what pithy means
Hey friend, I’ve been quite ill this week. Not sicker than I’ve ever been, but sicker than I’ve been in years. That was one small silver lining of COVID, I...
They can't sue everyone
Editor's Note: As will become clear, I wrote all this last evening, and intended to send it contemporaneously. But the problem with using independent...
