Real humans are weird and contradictory. They have random obsessions that don't fit their "brand." They go through phases. They abandon hobbies and pick them back up years later.

They contain multitudes, and those multitudes don't need to have a coherent narrative thread.

Projects let you be gloriously non-linear. You don't have to turn every... See more

The non-linear approach is different – rather than trying to discover a particular arc path and follow it to its conclusion, it recognizes that there will be many different moments and opportunities to create meaning that arise in our life. The idea is not that we will participate in one story that can be easily wrapped up by our biographers – but... See more