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“I spent a year as a creative director doing exactly this. Good salary. Decent title. Work that needed doing. But nothing that required me specifically. Nothing that used the particular way I see the world. Which is why I always felt like there was something missing from the role, and perhaps why I never felt truly very good at it.”

The Epidemic of... See more

But what if stuckness isn’t just psychological miscalibration? What if it’s not failure at all, but initiation? What if the room you can’t yet leave is not a trap, but a crucible? I’m not offering a sermon here, at least not one you’d hear in church, but bear with me!

Nearly every sacred text worth reading insists on the necessity of the in-between.... See more

I’ve always had this sense that if you build a container for something, you will make things to fill it. What I frequently do is try to figure out different containers. A website is a container.

The real question is, where does scarcity still exist? It exists where it has always existed—in the distribution layer, with the limits on human attention. Artificial intelligence can generate abundance in creation, it can even create new currencies, but it cannot convert attention into currency. Only human beings can do that. 

I’ll go even further... See more

Also, don’t fall into the trap of productivity porn—chasing productivity for its own sake isn’t helpful. Many people spend too much time thinking about how to perfectly optimize their system, and not nearly enough asking if they’re working on the right problems.