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A frisbee, a hawk, some spaghetti, and information overload.

August 24, 2025

A frisbee, a hawk, and some spaghetti Knife, Hawk, Spaghetti is an improv game usually used for warming up the performers in practice or before a show. You...

Hi. May is going to be a busy month for comedy around these parts! Firstly, I’m writing and performing in a sketch comedy show with Hey Party people! and...

February 25, 2025

A zine of my notes from the book “On Reading” by Nick Parker. Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about journaling on paper. Notebooks. Creative paper projects....

Pass the Notebook

February 23, 2025

The wheel. Fire. The Internet. These are often cited as humanity’s greatest inventions. I think we’re undervaluing paper. If someone asked me what the...

Complexity, Walking, and Improv

February 5, 2025

I’m new to the study of Complexity Science. I’ve heard Complexity Science defined as the study of networks of adaptive agents. Ant colonies, people,...

Everything is unscripted

December 26, 2024

Will tomorrow look and feel a lot like today? Probably, yes. Will five years from now look and feel a lot like today? Plausibly, maybe. Possibly, no one...

A little book of improv

November 23, 2024

Above photo by Scott Marcoux. A while ago I made a zine about Improv. I followed Austin Kleons instructions here. You can print out the zine and follow those...

The First Annual Hey Party People! Spooktacular! at Three of Strong Spirits

November 18, 2024

A video from the Hey Party People! sketch comedy show on November 1, 2024 in Portland Maine.One of our funnest shows to date. We performed Halloween night...

Improv as refuge in dark times

November 7, 2024

I’m deeply concerned by the results of the US presidential election. If you’re reading this and voted for the person who won, you aren’t going to like this...

On Microsolidarity

Microsolidarity is community building. At first glance it sounds like a two person friendship (Dyads) and a group of friends hanging out (Crews), and a large...

Second thought, first action

I heard this helpful technique or “thought technology” recently. It’s pretty meaningful to me personally so I thought I’d share it to see if it resonates...

Reto Photos - Late Fall 2023

December 9, 2023

I just published the following post (read it online here): I picked up this cheap film camera called the Reto Ultra Wide and Slim to try it out. It’s made...

The Voice of the Mind

October 31, 2023

This quote from the book The Untethered Soul: A Journey Beyond Yourself really struck me. There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that...

Having fun with uncertainty

October 31, 2023

We spend a lot of our time and energy worrying about the future. Who can blame us, everything seems like it's terrible and about to fall apart. Every...

September 15, 2023

Hey, You probably got an email from me yesterday about Futures Thinking. Here's what happened. I decided to make a new website/blog/newsletter to use for...

Judgement, Awareness, and Highways.

September 10, 2023

-- Today I learned (or realized I already knew) that the monkey mind’s consistent chatter is neither wrong or right. It just is. Your awareness, your 'you'...

You are a wave Before you were you, you existed in some unknowable body of water. Some forces came together and caused a joining and you become you. And you...