Mikey Hayes

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

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

The truth is that most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your control, regardless of what your mind says about it.

Measure What Matters

A potentially helpful strategy for learning to take note of our progress could be to find a better scale. Fortunately, better as it pertains to a scale used to measure our growth isn’t really about being able to detect smaller changes or collect more data. Better, when it comes to noticing how far we’ve come is about being