Today I set up 1Password, Kagi, and Fastmail exactly the way I wanted them across three different browsers. Then, while searching for how to get rid of unread counts in...
I sent the link to this blog to a handful of friends yesterday. I wrote that it had felt delicious to write in here without anyone knowing about it, but...
“A good strategy defines a critical challenge. What is more, it builds a bridge between that challenge and action, between desire and immediate objectives that lie within grasp. -- from...
Now is a time to get deeper in our understanding of what is easeful for us. Be ruthless in discerning what works for you. Separate that which is uncomfortable because...
I’ve just finished redoing my website, and I’m thrilled for it to become a container for my various projects. I took Kening Zhu’s wonderful house on the webs course, which...
And maybe that’s why I’m struggling to figure out where I want my online life to take place. Here, on Pika? Maybe. I bought a new URL so that I...
I’ve been cheating on you, Pika. Pika, the site that started it all. In August, when I typed in some sort of search about whether there was any kind of...
I haven’t written for myself in a long time. I haven’t written for others in a long time. I’ve written my secret blogs. They exist in a parallel space where...
I’ve missed writing here. I love the minimal but robust editor, the fact that it has smart typography, the little cursor in my chosen contrast color. I’ll be honest —...
When was the last time you explained something to someone? Did you do so willingly? With the excitement of mutual discovery? Did you do so grudgingly, perhaps because they’d never...
I have too many thoughts this evening. I read a lot while I was nursing, but instead of letting it slosh through my mind, I read with the intent of...
I spent a shocking amount of time thinking about websites lately. Although not as much time as I spend looking at them. Scrolling, skimming, occasionally stopping to notice a design...
I’m a huge fan of Michelle Warner’s Sequence Over Strategy podcast. Her newsletter is great, too. She chooses stories from her own life to illustrate her main points about business design....
Zoe Chance’s Influence is Your Superpower hooked me in the first few pages. I figured if she knew how to craft such a good opening, she might have something to...
Verlyn Klinkenborg thinks we’re wrong about sentences. What they are. What they do. How to make them. His core argument comes early: “There are innumerable ways to write badly. The...
I loved Robin Rendle’s piece—what might you even call a presentation like this? A visual essay? In any case, the presentation was well considered and inspiring. Robin writes of the...
Today I found myself awash in a sea of shoulds. No, not awash. Capsized. Feeling myself sinking and without the energy to do much about it. Despite all prior experience,...
Who knew an Ikea rug would spark such an existential crisis? Ours is a color-block rug, with stripes loud enough for a child’s room, but sophisticated enough for the living...
Today I watched the Steve Jobs Apple iPhone launch video after hearing Nancy Duarte’s TED talk explaining that all great presentations have the same structure: they move back and forth...
In slide:ology, a book that deserves its own post, Nancy Duarte writes that Cisco, the computer systems company, created a set of icons in the 1980s for describing server relationships,...
I’ve made things too complicated again. It’s almost like, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, except for online presence. I got this secret blog, but then I wanted a secret...
I've been mainlining Visualize Value this evening. I love his images, but I'm not sure if it's for me. Are abstract concepts more dignified when they remain abstract? Who am...
How did it happen that I wrote nearly every day in August, but hardly at all in September? It wasn’t that I was busy. I was busy then, I’m busy...
Today I worked on formatting my book to be an e-book. I used Atticus.io and it was much easier than I expected. I thought it might take weeks! I was...
Last week, I wrote three conference abstracts while pausing about every half-sentence to interact with my toddler. “This workshop will— “Yes, it’s a pink circle.” —help participants to expand and...