A good Friday
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
Five stories of typographic, geometric, and illustrative tattoos
Origins of leadership
Son of a preacher-man and nurse-woman; starting buffets; cliff-diving into a frenzy
Metaphoric method and semantic gradients
Colors squeezed onto the palette; type, heavy with ink; moving in rhythmic vertical flow.
Sitzprobe and wandelprobe
Words from the theatre that align to product, design, and tech
What does the word “power” bring for you?
Reflecting on the coincidence of the question that book-ends my professional path
Influence of John Cage
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?
Hint: metaphors with figure-ground relationships to literal meaning
The violence of weird
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
Where my business' name comes from; a hybrid mix of creation and curation, product and process.
Become the leader only you can be
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
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?
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?
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
Once upon a time, I attended a leadership training where we herded sheep.
University workshop proposals
Potential workshops to give, lead, and facilitate for design students
Portfolio thinking
Evolving from an artifact-based portfolio towards a story-based career portfolio
Thinking, speeds and processes
On onboarding flows and prepositional thinking: fast and slow; bottom-up and top-down
The hustle of Hustle Culture
Finding the words for opinions in response to people who think the only way to succeed is through hustle.
The Humorous Book Club
Today starts the second book club I've ever been a part of; reading Design that Scales