Did it "need" to take months? No. This is less about how long it took to get an idea through to delivery, and more about the rewarding feeling of being commited to a challenge.
Read MoreThe Wanting and The Doing
A quiet note on creative ambition, distraction, and the daily choice between possible futures.
Read MoreOn making memory dividends
Of all the things I could be spending my money, time, and attention on, I'm taking trips just to ‘say’ that I've done it? To treat a 'once-in-a-lifetime' opportunity as a tick-box exercise? That’d make sense if it were true, but it’s not what I’ve meant.
Read MoreWhat's the worst that can happen?
You're hearing it again... the voice in the back of your head nudging, prodding, screaming at you to pay attention to truth you've pushed down or excused away.
Not now. Not yet. Not until...
A web of concerns left unnamed and unresolved.
Read MoreThe Myth of 'Once I’ve Made It'
What would you keep doing, even after you’ve “made it”?
“Certainly not this!”
You’ve said it before, and you’ll say it again every time.
You’re one viral post, pay rise, or winning ticket away from your big break.
And it’s long overdue.
Read MoreClarity by the Kilometre
A walk. A call. An idea worth chasing. And the realisation that the best way to get unstuck is to get moving.
Read MoreDo all good stories follow the 3 P's?
Forget three-act structures — Brandon Sanderson’s “Promise, Progress, Payoff” tip just cracked fiction wide open for me.
Read MoreLess stuff, more flow: Every interaction a barrier
We add more than we subtract. New features, new menus, new doors. Each new interaction creating another barrier between users and their goals.
Read MoreLiftoff
Strapped to the front of a combusting cylinder,
Nichole Ayers graduates to space,
But from way down here it may appear,
Like there's fear all over my face…
Read MoreNew Year's Day is too easy to pretend to be good
Ahh, the start of the New Year—so full of hope, promise, and a million downloads of the trendiest habit-tracking app. Funny, then, that my own logged results for January 1st would first appear as either a slip up or a total, abject failure at goal-setting. But is it?
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