current motivations

You can’t solve a problem you don’t understand. You can’t lead a field you haven’t immersed yourself in. You must go down the rabbit hole. You must go deep. You must swarm the topic.

“Every time you try to show how smart you are, your writing immediately gets worse.”

the things that have always worked will always work: solve real problems for real people and learn how to communicate that very, very clearly and well. There will always be something shiny to chase and distract from the essentials; the difficult part is to keep doing the things that have always worked.

In solopreneurship, constraints force creativity. Unless you’re making a lot, you can't throw money or people at most problems. You have to think your way through them and make sacrifices. Surprisingly, this often leads to better outcomes.

Advice for big, daunting projects: do something right away. When a major project lands in your lap, perhaps with a deadline weeks or months away, make it your business to take some kind of concrete action on it as soon as you can, even if you won’t get to the majority of the work until later. The longer such a project sits on your plate without... See more

“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”

-Mary Oliver

The calvary isn’t coming.

You don’t need the calvary.

The calvary is kind of all over the place and they are a bit useless.

You are the power. You are the source. You have agency. You have the ability to create and connect on your own incredibly powerful terms.

Artists need to realise that it’s YOU. You have the power.