A Case For Ritual > Routine: Balancing Productivity and Pleasure
A summer in Montana — phone-free, grieving my Papa, watching for shooting stars on the dock with my mom and sisters — left me asking: How do you actually live well? Is it possible to cultivate a creative practice where productivity and pleasure aren't at war?
If Time is Money, Attention is Everything
A year ago, I quit my full-time marketing job in favor of consulting to make "more time" for my art. I didn't actually make more art. (My house was really clean, though.) Here's what I learned: Time wasn’t the problem — attention was. And Silicon Valley is doing a great job mining it.
Cancel Creator’s Block: 21 Ways to Get Creatively Motivated Right Now
Written a year into COVID, when stagnancy felt like a permanent state of being: Here are 21 tactical ways to break out of creator's block and back into momentum — from the abstract (artist affirmations) to the tangible (Airplane Mode).