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Game Your Brain

For reasons of my own, I’ve been interested in something called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for some time now. My interest started before I was even aware of CBT as a psychological discipline in the first place, though. I figured out some years ago that it’s possible to hack your own mind, if you do it [...]

Keeping the Energy Up

It’s definitely been a long year for me, and I’m finding that every day it seems like I have less and less free time and energy to get things done. It’s sorely tempting to go dig up some motivational reading or podcasts to see if they’ll help, but honestly I feel like I’ve gotten as [...]

It’s been a long week. Also, Insurance.

Those who know me will recall that in late September a very startled young fellow backed a large moving van (made of steel) into my Civic’s front end (made of plastic and spaghetti apparently). So I started the week off by dropping my (severely punctured) ‘06 Honda Civic – also known as “the darling thing” [...]

The Koan of Chattering Monkeys

I woke up one morning, and going out into the forest, came upon a thousand monkeys chattering. So taking it upon myself to find out why, I questioned them, saying: “Why do you chatter so?”
“We chatter because it is a Sunday!”
“The chattering is because today it will rain.”
“Our chatter is a great song. Do you [...]

It’s Time To Talk Shop

So, happy Black Friday, everybody. I’ll be spending today on a couch, writing, thanks. Let me know when it’s safe to leave the house.

In the meantime, let’s take a moment to briefly touch on one of my favorite topics: the practice of business and how it relates to the practice of being a creative type. [...]