Morning Pages, But Make It Weird I’ve been trying to crack the code on morning routines for about three years now. You know how it goes. Everyone swears by their thing. Cold showers, meditation apps, green smoothies that look like…
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When Work Stops Feeling Like Work I’ve been keeping a running list in my phone of projects that make me forget to check the clock. Not the ones my boss assigns or the client deliverables with red flags in my…
When Work Stops Feeling Like Work I’ve been keeping a running list in my phone of projects that make me forget to check the clock. Not the ones my boss assigns or the client deliverables with red flags in my…
Why I’m Embracing My Status as a Professional Amateur I’ve been thinking about this while staring at my half-finished watercolor painting that looks like a toddler’s fever dream. The flowers are lopsided. The colors bled together in ways that would…
The Apps That Didn’t Disappoint Me I’ve been using Obsidian for about eighteen months now, and this year it finally clicked. Not because I discovered some revolutionary workflow or because I’m suddenly organized. It clicked because I stopped trying to…
When Work Stops Feeling Like Work You know that feeling when someone asks what you do for a living and you actually light up instead of giving the standard “it pays the bills” shrug? That happened to me last week…
I used to think reading was about collecting good ideas like stamps. Find the wisdom, underline the smart parts, become slightly more enlightened. Then I read a few books that didn’t make me smarter at all. They made me wrong….
The One That Made Me Question Everything I Thought I Knew About Knowing I picked up “The Righteous Mind” by Jonathan Haidt thinking I was about to read a psychology book. Turns out I was signing up for an identity…
The Teacher Who Made Me Question Everything Mrs. Chen taught AP Biology like she was personally offended by ignorance. Not in a mean way, but in the way someone gets frustrated when they see potential being wasted. She had this…
The Bookstore That Doubles as a Living Room You know that feeling when you walk into someone’s house and immediately want to curl up on their couch? That’s Powell’s Books in Portland. Not the touristy main store downtown, but the…