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Hyper activity

Throughout my career I’ve waffled between periods of time where I’m incredibly hyper active with work and apathetically detached. Part of this might be due to existing in a climate that is sometimes referred to as late-stage capitalism. A time period where we feel pressured to always perform

Gremlins in the keyboard

I’m back into some longform writing, and have been looking at the best editor to work through a manuscript. In searching I stumbled across a solution to a problem I struggled with for years. Sometimes, while typing on the Mac in Ulysses, my cursor inserter would magically jump up

Rest

In the past I’ve taken breaks from infinity wells. It’s time to take another break. I’m committing to myself to take a pause from the infinity wells that draw me in most and distract me from doing the things that I care about. So, until Dec 7

So you want to illustrate?

A friend recently asked me for tips on illustrating. He’s writing content for a specific topic, and wants to include visuals to explain the ideas. A few tips I suggested to him: 1. Just start sketching - If you can draw a stick figure with arrows and labels, you

Finding that thing

Sometimes I find myself in a state of incompleteness. There’s so much to be done and not enough energy left. When life includes many important things, it seems impossible to do them all. Sometimes days feel like Hal changing a lightbulb. Today I sat down and played with something

Chocolate Smoothie

I wrote earlier this year about my favorite smoothie recipe. Today I was chatting about smoothies and mentioned another recipe I enjoy, and was asked to share it as well. So here it is! * 2-3 bananas * 3 cups milk * ½ cup peanut butter * 14 cubes ice * 2 tablespoons honey * 2 scoops

Voice memos

I’m a huge fan of voice memos. I’ve been using them on iMessage for years to message friends. One of the recent tricks I learned is you can swipe across the voice memo. Sometimes I inadvertently end a message early and need to relisten, so imagine my joy

Finding hope and joy in creating

An amazing video by Cabel Sasser has been floating around the internet the last week. If you’re one of the lucky 10,000 who haven’t seen it yet, my pitch is simple. If you love anything, want to create anything, and ever wonder about your purpose in this

The top-level domain .io may disappear

On October 3, the British government announced that it was giving up sovereignty over a small tropical atoll in the Indian Ocean known as the Chagos Islands. The islands would be handed over to the neighboring island country of Mauritius, about 1,100 miles off the southeastern coast of Africa.

The Wild Robot

A few weeks ago I picked up some new books, including The Wild Robot, book 1. Since it’s an easy read I went through a few chapters each night with the kids. Last week we watched the new movie together as a family, and my wife and I were