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February 22, 2022This is an email I sent to my mailing list on February 17th. You can subscribe for updates on things I’m making/trying, plus the occasional…
This is an email I sent to my mailing list on February 17th. You can subscribe for updates on things I’m making/trying, plus the occasional…
My brother died two weeks ago. I keep looking at that sentence, thinking, “That’s a shocking thing to say; it feels sensationalist. Do I…
Part one: A story about productivity systems, personal growth, and discovering alternatives to both
During the pandemic, David Whyte (one of my favorite poets and thinkers) has been offering online seminars. I highly recommend them; they’ve…
Focusing your business on weirdos can seem like a risk, but is it?
This is the issue where I decide to focus all other issues on people-first growth. We’ll see how that goes. 🌿
This is the issue announcing a very short-lived guinea pig project.
This is the issue where I start yet another public writing project, this one for essays and the like. ❤️
Why weirdos are easier to find and understand than any other breed of human
This is the issue where I announce another weird web project, this one from our team at &yet.
This is the issue where I started writing my next book on People-First Growth in public. I also answer the question, “Was there any…
We did a weird thing and hosted a Gather the People class on Instagram. It was fun (and the illustrations, by my teammate Amy Lynn Taylor…
I re-ignited my personal newsletter! This is the first in a series debuting my public Roam project. Hear hear! (Or is it here! here! Either…
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how we conducted our Instagram experiment I wrote for &yet. Come look!
Here’s a little announcement post I wrote for our August Gather the People class. (The materials are still up on Instagram for your…
“Only a few achieve the colossal task of holding together, without being split asunder, the clarity of their vision alongside an ability to…
This is a newsletter I wrote for &yet about how we’re standing in solidarity with the Black community against systemic oppression, white…
In this podcast, designer/developer Bryan Zavestoski and I chat about when to take risks, how to be strategically creative, and how to…
In this episode of To Build a Swing, Adam and I are talking about the the soul vs. the personality and the importance of integrating the two…
Gather the Courage is a guided journaling project we made to help creative leaders to reflect, be encouraged, and make courageous decisions…
Image by @drawnbyjaime, for &yet In this week’s newsletter, I’m sharing a couple of things we made to help during pandemic-time.
My sweet Charlotte wanted to talk about how to deal with sad feelings on our walk today. I ❤️ this list of happy makers she came up with.
Adam and I have a new podcast! In our first episode, we talk about Covid-19 and its effects on our mental health, clarity, and ability to…
_“While we weren’t watching, a next generation threat to human freedom materialized right in front of our noses. We didn’t notice it because…
The past two months have been a surreal experience. We added several folks to our team on the growth side (Hi, Jessica! Hi, Lauren!), which…
I love the feeling of starting something new. Even though it takes a while to get your footing, everything in front of you feels like pure…
I’ve been thinking about the phrase “leap and the net will appear” this week. I’ve never felt so strongly that this is terrible advice…
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the type of presence Amy Cuddy refers to in her book. I’m solidly an introvert. If I had my way, I…
Remember when we talked about OKRs that one time? As we’re going into our third planning quarter, I’ve come to really appreciate the clarity…
We publicly released our cold read assessment last week. It’s been making me think a lot about the biases we bring when we create products…
Adam took me on my first backpacking trip a month ago, and my second last weekend. Since then, I keep thinking about how grounding it is to…
I’m feeling really encouraged as I write this today. It’s been 91 days since we publicly committed to our new direction and started setting…
Last week was my first week as CEO of &yet. (Adam wrote a post about it, if you havent heard yet.) It was a pretty natural transition, but…
Dear friends, family, and folks we know from the Internet who have squirreled their way into our hearts, We have a new name! We were going…
I wrote a newsletter a few weeks ago from Nashville, TN, host of my angsty teen years. We were there to attend a seminar David Baker was…
When I was in the eighth grade, one of my teachers (who was also a self-proclaimed prophet) told me that the lesson I would need to learn in…
I’ve always valued the privilege to deeply focus on whatever I’m working on, but I’ve strived to do this while still having multiple big…
You know how you hear about a book so many times that you feel like you’ve read it, but you actually haven’t? That’s the case for me with…
This fall, my partner and I bought Tumbleweird, a local free alternative paper started a few years ago by some great people who wanted to…
For the past year and a half, my counselor has been working with me through some hard personal stuff. I’ve experienced tremendous growth…
Last month, I wrote that I’m doing a complete re-write of Gather the People (rather than a heavy edit). Since then, as I’ve worked with the…
So…fun update for you. But first I need to put on my confident zombie goddess face. This is probably the most off-brand I will ever be…
My problem with waking up started 17 years ago. I wish I could explain it to you in a way that doesn’t make me sound insecure and sensitive…
Act one: Get laid off If that’s not possible, make some other kind of drastic/heroic/insane move that will make step number two possible…
It’s almost New Years! And even though I say I won’t make a big deal out of New Years and its promise to make me into a brighter, shinier…
I love to work on the areas of my life that are not quite what I know they could be. If I had to pick a hobby, personal growth would be it…
When I was a kid, I loved playing role-playing games. (Still do.) I love that you can be whoever you want to be…that you can explore the…
Last week, I started doing The Artist’s Way for maybe the second or third time (I say “doing” rather than “reading” because although it’s a…
Last night in the pitch dark, I trekked to the beach in below-freezing temperatures in order to see the “big waves” with my family. (The…
“Sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going…I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, ‘Do…
They say that when you’re your own boss, you’ve got the worst boss in the world. It’s true. To myself, I am like the Attila the Hun of…