for makers

It gave me so much confidence in what I wanted to do. I did not care if the world I wanted to exist in actually existed. And then as we kept going, we created it around us.

Consistently, if I’m out and someone asks what I do, I’ll say I’m an artist. I’ll say I’m an app star. I’ll consistently say these things that make no sense. And weirdly, the... See more

joy is found in being the driver. It's the act of looking at the raw material of your circumstances — your time, your energy, your relationships, your skills — and seeing what you can make from it.

It is the act of creating the life you want (in big and small ways) that makes you feel alive and imbues life with extra meaning. The fact that you can... See more

Increasingly, the most compelling work is multidisciplinary. Mood boards, typographic explorations, decks, writing, visual references, and cultural points of view all matter.

craft circles

There’s this passage from the memoirs of the composer Philip Glass, which I think can shed some light on why art—good art—can bring us into a closer connection with ourselves. Glass writes that when he composes music for films,

I don’t spend a lot of time looking at the image. I look at it once. Maybe twice, but not more than twice. Then I depend on

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when reality is this negotiable, the soil for preferred futures is fertile.

When you’re creating, you have to have an internal compass. An innate, inherent thing that I’ll call a passion-o-meter — a meter that measures when you really believe in something.

Something has to feel right to you, whatever that unknown thing is, in order for you to share it with others. It’s about having such a keenness to bring that thing you

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