for makers

Three Things to Remember

As long as you’re dancing, you can

break the rules.

Sometimes breaking the rules is just

extending the rules.

Sometimes there are no rules.

The experiences that stay with us are the ones that remind us that the rules we’ve been living slave to — the musts and the shoulds and the usualies and the as always — that perhaps they’re... See more

There’s a long-standing tension in how to be productive with creative work around this desire. Broadly, two schools of thought dominate. The first says: sit down every day at the same time and it will arrive. Discipline precedes inspiration. If you show up consistently enough, the muse eventually learns your address. The second says: respect the... See more

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.