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Craft & Practice #5
July 22, 2025
Dear humans, It’s been a month, this time, since my last update—leaning more towards every few weeks than every week. If you would like more consistently...
Craft & Practice: #4
June 25, 2025
Highlights from the past month of digital gardening: 4 from garden; 4 new beds; and top 5 links from soil cultivation.
Craft & Practice #3
May 22, 2025
I've launched my Chrysalis Essays reflecting on 2020 and shared insights on productivity and digital gardening!
Craft & Practice #2
May 5, 2025
Hello you lovely lot, Friday, I made the two-hour trip down to my parents to celebrate Santa’s twin brother’s birthday. A photograph of my mom and dad,...
Craft & Practice #1
April 25, 2025
This is the first of starting back up my newsletter. You haven’t heard from me in a while because I’ve been busy. Now getting to a point where I’m confident...
Weekly Wanders #1
March 25, 2025
The first edition of a weekly newsletter where I'll share things I got up to this week.
Migrating to bluer skies
November 18, 2024
I joined the mass exodus a few weeks ago—rekindling spirits of blogging
Neurodivergence and habit building
November 1, 2024
Missing the daily routine of writing; acknowledging transitions through change
No-code, low-code, gen AI; oh my!
October 15, 2024
Product management in an evolving software development life-cycle
Structural sensemaking and content-first
October 14, 2024
Delving into databases, definitions of design, formative lessons, and the day's context
Incubators, Accelerators, and VC in North Carolina
October 11, 2024
A compiled list for reference and to share with someone
Did you miss me?
October 9, 2024
6-days; now the longest I've broken my writing streak
Colorado Springs, Colorado
October 1, 2024
Learning about where I'm working this week
Leadership Values & Purpose
September 27, 2024
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.
Tools I use in my development practice
September 26, 2024
A list of tiny web tools I've routinely used
Thoughts, after Strengths
September 25, 2024
Today, in Power Shift, we're talking about Strengthsfinder results. Since I didn't post yesterday, there'll be two today—a before and after of the session.
Thoughts, before Strengths
September 25, 2024
Today, in Power Shift, we're talking about Strengthsfinder results. Since I didn't post yesterday, there'll be two today—a before and after of the session.
Shitty First Drafts
$ · September 23, 2024
The process is the point—sometimes you have to take the long-way-'round.
A good Friday
$ · September 20, 2024
It's been a long time coming, but today was the first time I’ve felt energized at the end of the week because of its events. Start of the day I began the day...
My leadership values
$ · September 19, 2024
Five stories of typographic, geometric, and illustrative tattoos
Origins of leadership
$ · September 18, 2024
Son of a preacher-man and nurse-woman; starting buffets; cliff-diving into a frenzy
Metaphoric method and semantic gradients
$ · September 17, 2024
Colors squeezed onto the palette; type, heavy with ink; moving in rhythmic vertical flow.
Sitzprobe and wandelprobe
$ · September 16, 2024
Words from the theatre that align to product, design, and tech
What does the word “power” bring for you?
$ · September 13, 2024
Reflecting on the coincidence of the question that book-ends my professional path
Influence of John Cage
$ · September 12, 2024
A memory of a memory coming from one of my first presentations while studying graphic design
What do T, Pi, and Comb all have in common?
$ · September 11, 2024
Hint: metaphors with figure-ground relationships to literal meaning
The violence of weird
$ · September 10, 2024
There are far more accurate and better words to use than weird to describe these people, this party, and their priorities. Use them instead.
Naming Poet & Scribe
$ · September 6, 2024
Where my business' name comes from; a hybrid mix of creation and curation, product and process.
Become the leader only you can be
$ · September 5, 2024
Next week starts Power Shift, a 10-week leadership program for people who want to stand out—not burn out.
Word-collecting and accurate language
$ · September 4, 2024
Throughout my life, I’ve been a a word-collector. It’s taken me a while to figure that out, or to put a name to it…but I like that Title for now: “Word...
My first NaNoWriMo?
$ · September 3, 2024
Writing about National Novel Writing Month, some of its recent events, and working through if I'm going to participate
Will I work on Labor Day?
$ · September 2, 2024
All last week, there was a question internally looming & looping: will I work on Labor Day? Labor has been talked about in the Tech, Design, and Product...
Leadership lessons from Border Collies
$ · August 30, 2024
Once upon a time, I attended a leadership training where we herded sheep.
University workshop proposals
$ · August 29, 2024
Potential workshops to give, lead, and facilitate for design students
Portfolio thinking
$ · August 28, 2024
Evolving from an artifact-based portfolio towards a story-based career portfolio
Thinking, speeds and processes
$ · August 27, 2024
On onboarding flows and prepositional thinking: fast and slow; bottom-up and top-down
The hustle of Hustle Culture
$ · August 23, 2024
Finding the words for opinions in response to people who think the only way to succeed is through hustle.
The Humorous Book Club
$ · August 23, 2024
Today starts the second book club I've ever been a part of; reading Design that Scales
Where in the world has Trump not crimed?
$ · August 21, 2024
An idea for a game inspired by the classic "Where in the world is Carmen San Diego?"
Solve together, execute apart
$ · August 20, 2024
Reflections while reading the necessary second edition of Mike Monteiro's "Design is a Job"
This is now the longest continuous writing practice I’ve ever kept
$ · August 19, 2024
Considerations on writing length and practice's purpose
Preparation and informed impulsivity
$ · August 16, 2024
The hidden, internal layers of decision-making
Part One: The Metaphoric Method
$ · August 15, 2024
Giving shape to a way of asking questions, seeking insight and shared understanding
Letter distributions and languages
$ · August 14, 2024
Scrabble, alphabet data, and playing in different ways
Part one: Polders, dykes, and decision-making
$ · August 13, 2024
Communicating cultural influences & differences of getting work done
Fingers, soup, and lessons in accessibility
$ · August 12, 2024
I did not find any finger in my soup
When my brain plays keep-away with words
$ · August 9, 2024
When you're searching for word and you know you know the word—you just HAD the word!—but now your brain's hiding the word.
Why every company is a tech company in 2024
$ · August 8, 2024
The tech industry impacts virtually every surface & society on the planet—here, I acknowledge it.
28: Year Overview and Retrospective
$ · August 7, 2024
Today, typing's more difficult than usual. This is a post I published on birthday in 2017, reflecting on my 28th year, entering my 29th.
Books that have shaped my practice
$ · August 6, 2024
A list of books that I regularly recommend; they're fundamental to my way of thinking, working, and collaboration—books on craft, leadership, business, and writing.
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