Deer are eating our lilys
I accidentally pulled one up, roots and all
Reflecting on work
Reflecting on what it's meant, my relationship with it, and what works best for me
Advice on Productivity
Insights on what's worked for me as I've recovered from burnout
Poet & Scribe
Thoughts on building our first business
University Workshop Proposals
Potential workshops to give, lead, and facilitate for design students
My work wishlist
A shareable doc on what I'm looking for in my next role as a worker
1945 was 80 years ago
A wonderfully helpful little design detail
Bluesky Starter Packs
A running list of good starterpacks I find to reference
My digital garden
How I'm planning & structuring my garden
The Reitoff Principle
Writing off the day
Givers and Takers
Energy investment and motivational inertia
Weekly Wanders #1
The first edition of a weekly newsletter where I share things I got up to this week.
Defining Practice
A definition by Seth Godin about shipping creative work.
Thinking, speeds, and processes
Onboarding flows and prepositional thinking: fast and slow; bottom-up and top-down
Metaphoric method and semantic gradients
Colors squeezed onto the palette; type, heavy with ink; moving in rhythmic vertical flow.
Cover Letters
Thoughts, experiences, and structures
Origins of leadership
Son of a preacher-man and nurse-woman; starting buffets; cliff-diving into a frenzy
My leadership values
Five stories of typographic, geometric, and illustrative tattoos
Leadership Values & Purpose
Written during my time in Booking.com's Partner Tech Department's Leadership team. Published to the 300–400 people in our department; written in March 2019.
What do T, pi, and combs all have in common?
Hint: metaphors with figure-ground relationships to literal meaning
Project Pricing
Set Studio launched a rebrand, with clear & open pricing!
Screen Size
A little tool I want to make
Collective Nouns
A fun word list
Words disappearing in the Trump Administration
A list from the New York Times
Planning for `/books`
Working through my site's URL design
Creating a design system for neurodivergent humans
Documenting steps and research that's informing options & decisions
News Organizations
List of moral & ethical journalism
Freyja Shadowstorm
Top 10 finalist for America's Favorite Pet
Naming Home
Some wi-fi network names
Creating a design system for neurodivergent humans
Documenting steps and research that's informing options & decisions
My Aphantasic Journey
Reflecting on visual problem-solving without a mind's eye
Breaking my longest daily writing streak
How do I consistently practice when the catalysing rituals don't occur?
More meaningful; not more
Redefining productivity: Energy management for impactful living
Discovering and naming my magic
Honoring Disability Pride Month, a story of discovering my neurodivergence
Tsundoku and joy
The beauty of untranslatable words and the joy of gifted books
Growing my own digital garden
One guiding ethos as I build my website from scratch
A story of my new favorite website
It's what the internet used-to, still-is, and could become again
Towards new beginnings
After months of networking, first client work starts tomorrow
Chapter 2: 500 Characters
My first lesson in daily writing practice, learning to write for me
Contracts, confidence, and creativity
Reflections of value & impact while navigating the business of freelance work
The hidden power of defaults
Lessons in responsibility from web design, experimentation, and life
Everyone forgets about mourning
Understanding the cyclical nature of team development stages
Reflecting on Glue Work
An invisible force shaping our teams; connecting people, ideas, and innovation
Pursuing flow, kindness, and imperfection
How routines, rituals, and self-kindness impact my daily rhythm to create
Beyond balance: The Power of Boundaries
How Nature's smallest plants teach us to thrive in any environment
Why 500 words is an important measure
Understanding the necessity of learning to write in 500 words or less
Chapter 1: 500 Words #1
Building a writing routine & practice in public
Structural sensemaking and content-first
Delving into databases, definitions of design, formative lessons, and the day's context
Neurodivergence and habit building
Missing the daily routine of writing; acknowledging transitions through change