Om Malik passed away earlier this year. This week would have been his 60th birthday. Yesterday I flew back from California, where I attended OmFest 2026. Admittedly, I didn't know what to expect when Matt Mullenweg announced it and then Gruber cross-referenced it. I'd known
It's easy for me to lose sight of why I create art, why I share design, why I use the curiosity and creativity as a human to put things out into the world. There's benefit in those things by themselves. They're therapeutic, they challenge
Seven years ago I set a daily goal of 1,000 words. I was reading a Stephen King book (On Writing) and he suggested 2,000 words seven days a week as a writing habit, something he's done for many years. He offered an out, half of his
I forget a lot. In fact, I’ve written about this on numerous occasions. Watching my son learn to play the guitar today, I was struck by the joy of a great memory, a mind that can attune to something, learn it in a short period, and hold the ideas
