Being a guide

For Maya Angelou, a modern-day sage of the finest kind, the mystery and miracle of creativity is in its self-regenerating nature. In the excellent collection Conversations with Maya Angelou(public library), which also gave us her poignant exchange with Bill Moyers, Angelou says:

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand

The internet taught us to consume everything. Save everything. Remember everything. But wisdom isn't about remembering more. It's about knowing what to keep close.

Here, I keep only what resonates. What rings true. What feels like a bell being struck in an empty room. Not another feed to scroll, but a garden where each saved moment has room to put

Mediocrity

Sycophancy

Boring

Void

You don’t find clarity by choosing a topic—you find it by chasing the thing that won’t leave you alone.

Topics feel like boxes — tidy, labeled, stackable.
Curiosity feels like a spark — unpredictable, alive, worth following.

I don’t start with “what to write about.”
I start with what’s tugging at me.
A sentence I can’t shake.
A question that hums under

What do you do?

I make chocolate and bicycles.

What do you want to do?

What should you be doing?

What are you expected to be doing?

uild agents and automations.

Everything

Idea

Play

Wonder

Nature

Colour

Start

Beauty

Birding

Boring

Portal

God

Synchronicity

Serendipity

Disposition

Mirror

Explosion

Impossible

Sense making

Meaning making

Music

Internet

Drawing

Writing

Like a child