Mikey Hayes
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Mikey Hayes
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Taming The Beast
While artists have many directives, a core component of our calling is found in taming the beast of our creative inclinations. On the surface, taming the beast may sound restrictive (or just weird) but in reality, it's nothing more (or less) than focusing our creative efforts, which eventually becomes the mechanism by which we learn
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Open Notes [No. 13] - June 12, 2025

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Designing is Thinking
A few years back I was hard at work organizing the semester-long schedule for a non-profit program. After roughly laying everything out, I realized there were so many events that simply placing them all on a physical calendar would be overwhelming.
While any calendar app would have been helpful in presenting the schedule, at
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The destruction of our attention compromises our ability to make sustained progress on anything worthwhile.
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