Fostering intentional creativity is a recurring theme in Slowing, and as I wrote in one of my essays in the book, there’s nothing like putting pin to paper, or in this case, cork. I’ve found mood boarding to be an ideal creative happy hour ritual and exercise in presence, attention, and curation. What’s more eye-opening than seeing certain themes... See more

My writing process, in a nutshell:

1. Stumble upon a sentence in the wild or get invited to speak— the spark.


2. Create a Sublime collection around that idea (here is my private collection).


3. Collect things obliquely related to that idea.


4. Visualize the chaos in Sublime Canvas to tidy the mental clutter (it takes one click to convert a collection into a

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