"No matter how well or badly...to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow......Do art and do it for the rest of your lives." --JEJ reading KV https://youtu.be/guRkX2vEzHQ?si=AqMht5BNqa2huU-0

Folks who choose to do meaningful work aren't signing up for easy work. Sometimes luck makes it easier. But what's more common is that meaningful work is hard. The metric is meaning. We evaluate it by asking: Are we growing? Are we finding people with shared values? Do we live our values? Are we creating … Continue reading Meaningful Work

Art that happens in real time and space is sacred. This is a re-post from August 2020. In the face of COVID lockdowns, there was a lot of innovation happening in the performing arts - "How the f*ck do we get people to gather?" We need to carry that innovation forward in the face of … Continue reading repost: Looking to Theater for Inspiration

Ten minutes a day moves the work forward. When you have more, give more. But always give ten minutes a day. If you can, protect a consistent time of day for that ten minutes. For me it's early morning. For others it's late at night. If you can, do it when your mind is sharp, … Continue reading Consistent Time

Be proud of yourself when you see a negative pattern you've fallen into and you do what it takes to make an adjustment. That moment of recognition, that willingness to try something different—you're already shifting things just by seeing clearly. Be patient with yourself when you see a pattern and you don't know what to … Continue reading Self Awareness of Patterns

Creative people find each other in unexpected ways. Not just any people—the right people. The ones who get excited about untested ideas and see possibility where others don't. There's something energizing about working with curious people. Not people who need to prove they're the smartest in the room, but people who ask good questions, who … Continue reading On Creative Collaboration and Trust

I was thinking about mindfulness—about what it means to mess up daily in my practice of loving kindness and find the wisdom to begin again. And then I started thinking about how this applies to technology. The tech industry loves its mantras. "Move fast and break things" has been the rallying cry for disruption, innovation, … Continue reading A Recipe for Intentional Growth

We've had a beautiful summer for being outside. But it has been dry. Too dry. Finally, this week there is rain. We need it. And we also need some days indoors to focus on some things. I've come to feel this way about winter as well. I used to dread it but now I feel … Continue reading Rain and Seasons

If you don't like small talk (I hate it), go right for the real stuff. Be curious. Ask questions that matter: What is your birth order? What keeps you up at night? What are you excited about? What scares you? And if you're lucky enough to have someone ask you these kinds of questions, be … Continue reading Real Talk

We live within many different rhythms at once. There are short timelines: daily + weekly tasks. There are things that happen once a month or once a quarter. There are seasonal events like the first strawberries in June or the last tomatoes in September. Celestial events that happen once a year or every X amount … Continue reading Multiple Timelines