What’s it like to wear a bespoke suit, a suit custom-made to fit me and only me? I want a life like that. I want a plan, a pattern, a path that takes into consideration all the weird, unruly, shocking, steadfast little and big things that combine to shape me. But how?
“The word bespoke itself [...]
The Original Deck
Years ago, I made a deck of creativity prompt cards for myself – 75 prompts that propelled me into a more expansive space for finding solutions. I formatted them in Excel, printed them on card stock, and cut them out by hand.
Months later, I put them to the test. I wanted to write [...]
My copy of Warren Berger’s book bristles with Post-It Notes. Its full title is Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Your Life, Your Business, and Maybe Even the World and it features the visionary ideas of Bruce Mau, along with other designers and thinkers on the topic. I’m forcing myself to stop at page 50 and [...]
We think we can’t see. We think we are blind. We think we are looking at something tiny and limiting and there’s nothing there.
But the world is chock full of tricks. The eye, the mind, the spirit, expand and contract depending on how we look and where we look and what we want to see.
Before [...]
The process of writing is a tool. It serves us, not the other way around. There’s something wrong when struggling with the writing process keeps people’s marvellous thoughts and much-needed wisdom from reaching the rest of us.
To make the writing process easier, to shift the focus from how to write to what to say, don’t [...]
