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Latest — 13 Jun 2025

Intentional Solitude

It's June 13th, 2025. June is typically a busy month for me and my family. Birthdays, Anniversary, the end of the school year. Spring is making its way into summer. Yard work. Broken lawn mowers. Turns out, it's a lot. This year is even busier than

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Applied Improv for Pixels and Polygons

I left the field of game development and animation about eight years ago. A lot has happened in those eight years, to me and that industry. I still am connected to friends in those areas. I’ve been thinking of volunteering to help folks who are working in animation, or

Influences

Despite growing up on Long Island, New York I don't know much about sailing. But I wholeheartedly believe that a rising tide lifts all ships, as long as everyone has sea-worthy boats. Three of my major influences: One: This is the longest running research ever conducted. I find

Lessons I keep learning over and over

The obstacle is the way. I was looking for a way into a subject and a way around my lack of education in the space. The way in is diving in. The way around is to use my experience in the space not my academic knowledge. The path is made

Zinelkasten?

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about journaling on paper. Notebooks. Creative paper projects. Zines. I’ve also been thinking about how to I organize my marginalia. Marginalia is the notes in the margins of a book. I highlight, make notes, even doodle in the books I read. Some

Pass the notebook

The wheel. Fire. The Internet. These are often cited as humanity’s greatest inventions. I think we’re undervaluing paper. If someone asked me what the greatest inventions we’ve made are, I’d add paper to the list. And add a caveat to the Internet. The un-enshitified Internet, but

Complexity, Walking, and Improv

I’m new to the study of Complexity Science. I’ve heard Complexity Science defined as the study of networks of adaptive agents. Ant colonies, people, organizations, and economic markets are all examples of complex systems. Also, I like these definitions of the features of complex systems from Karoline Wiesner

Use Ugly Sketches

Eppler’s first point is contradictory but so true, in my experience. If you want to find, discover, collaborate, foster emergence, then use a visual that is unpolished. A napkin sketch. A doodle on a post-it. It naturally invites people to the conversation. I really love the tactic of crazy

Forager

My friend Chris and I were accountability buddies in the Ness Labs Collector to Creator course a while back. This course was a really great introduction to collecting information and then doing something with it. Writing in particular, but whatever way you wanted to express yourself. Whatever way you wished

Everything is Unscripted

Will tomorrow look and feel a lot like today? Probably, yes. Will five years from now look and feel a lot like today? Plausibly, maybe. Possibly, no one knows. No one can see the future. Hell, no one knows exactly what to do right now. We strategize and plan and