Dear Reader,

First I just want to tell you that Flexible Office is returning and starts on Monday. My original co-working group for artists, writers, and creative business owners. Every Monday and Wednesday 9-10am EST for two months. A quick admin hour. A time to tether in.

Second I want to tell you - I hope you’re managing ok in this big week. A week of grief, sales, deals, meals, family, friends, loneliness, isolation, togetherness, and mystery. A week where everything feels loud but strangely hollow.

A week where we navigate what is ours to carry and someone else’s to manage.

And maybe that’s why I’ve been thinking so much about privacy.

For years, I’ve made my income transparent. My debt a line item in a podcast episode with thousands of listeners.
I’ve shared the numbers, the breakdowns, the categories, the launch totals, the “behind-the-scenes” that supposedly makes a creative life feel legible and real.

But something shifted recently—quietly, then catastrophically. Something in my inner knowing said: no more.

Not no more sharing.
But no more everything.

No more being consumed.
No more being readable from the outside like an open ledger.
No more flattening myself into numbers just to be trusted.

What I’m choosing now is…
a threshold.

A new boundary around my attention, my earnings, my practice, my relationships, and my inner world.

Inside this newsletter I’m sharing three things:

1. Why I’m done with public income transparency (and the exact moment I realized it).

2. What I will and won’t share online anymore—a living list, written as a kind of personal manifesto.

3. The real cost of visibility when you run a creative life and a business at the same time.

If you want to go deeper into this shift with me—
into the questions of privacy, self-protection, porousness, and becoming unreadable in a world that demands clarity—
the rest of this essay is waiting for you.

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