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Adding borders to photographs

By adding borders to my photographs, I can have at least some control over how the viewers will perceive the tonality, regardless of how the platform decides to present my work. I’ve struggled with imagery on my own blog, and in general on the internet anywhere. As an illustrator

Sometimes we need to quit

I think fulfillment is an entirely other topic from stress and burnout. You can be fulfilled and burned out or bored. This move wasn’t about fulfillment as much as having fewer things to do. Love Jon’s take on knowing when to pause someting. I often get bored and

MLK's image

I've changed my Bluesky avatar to MLK's image to celebrate his birthday on Monday, January 20. I dream of everyone wearing this button proudly on Monday in support of American democracy and progress. We are a proud country, beneath all the weirdness. What a great idea.

Grifting away

The internet didn't make us all marketers. It revealed that we always were. Every interaction is a transaction. Every piece of content a sales pitch. Every platform a marketplace. The winners aren't those who reject this reality. They're the ones who embrace it and

The benefit of reviews

I was perfectly happy with this lens... until I made the mistake of watching an old review of it. Take gear reviews with a big grain of salt. There’s nothing wrong with researching and understanding what is that you are getting for your money, especially when you are trying

Social media pause

As the United States come to a will-they-won’t-they moment of deciding whether to ban TikTok, I’ve had a moment to reflect on my own social media usage. I quit social media about a week after the last presidential election. It was too much. I needed a break. I’

Creativity doesn't end

You don’t just run out of creativity at one point. It’s not like you had a specific amount at the start of your life and each creative act depletes the reservoir. Instead creativity comes from a rested mind, a frantic mind, a nervous mind, an angry mind. There’

Origins of creativity

Creativity comes from constraints and freedom tied together. Pressure is ok, good in fact. It’s a wonderful thing to know that you have boundaries around your work, something holding it all together, forcing you forward. I think of the anology of swimming through a hard current and struggling against

Guerilla User Research

I’ve had the privilege of working alongside several fantastic UX Researchers over the last decade. Anytime I had a project where I could get help from one I gladly took the opportunity to learn everything I could. My understanding at this point is still basic; there’s so much

Exercise changes us

And the thing that we were really surprised to find was that really they turned into almost different beings. I mean, exercise was that potent. Every single tissue we looked at should something completely different from before. It really changed the entire molecular makeup of the individual organs of the