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Making it up

Everyone is making it up to some extent. This is the secret I didn’t learn until years into my career. I often thought I was the only one in the room who didn’t know what was going on, and was in awe of the geniuses always surrounding me.

Nebulous undefined ideas are too perfect

If you’re anything like me you’ve likely felt massive excitement at the idea of starting a new thing. Maybe it’s a project, a hobby, or some idea that you can’t put down. It’s novel, uncertain, and there’s so much possibility. In fact, the possibility

Scheduling posts

If there's one thing people love to see on a blog, it's self-indulgent meta-posting about the process of blogging – you're welcome. Go on. Basically: most blogs seem to die because the authors hit some kind of life-or-writing block, where they

Cozy video games

Egami's study found that owning a game console and increased gameplay reduced psychological distress and improved life satisfaction among participants. The study found that spending just one extra hour each day playing video games was associated with an increase in mental health and life satisfaction. While this of

Editing old posts

Overall I like going back to read old stuff. Yes it makes me cringe, but as long as I feel like I am making progress, taking time to reflect, and using that to grow, then it makes it worthwhile. I recently looked at a few posts on this very blog

The limits of advice, and having your own thoughts

This is where the reality of advice and research sets in. It’s all a bit of a gamble. You hope that whomever is offering you tips on what to buy has the same requirements, taste, and budget you do. I see so many people enjoying something online, only to

Cancelling should be as easy (or hard) as registration

If you can register online, you must be able to cancel online. If you can register without a call, you must be able to cancel without a call. Enter one of my greatest pet peeves. I don’t mind if a subscription service has skippable cancelation questions. If you ask

Inputs and outputs

The input field is a humble tool. You type something in and that data is shown somewhere else. In a Content Management System (CMS) it’s the start of everything. You add content to the input field and share it to the world. Right now I’m typing into a

Illustrations and AI

Today I had a juxtoposition of two challenges. On the one hand I needed to create imagery for a project I’m working on. I turned to AI generation to conjur up imagery, partially for the intended sake of speed, and partially because what I want is hard to find

One inbox

One inbox, manage it well and be done with it. Exotic categorization systems just make for more work (twice). I’ve long chosen to have all my email inboxes forward into a single inbox. Yes it’s a bit more work, but I know there’s one place to check,