Happy Monday from Phoenix Arizona! This is a special place for me, and I’m stoked to be spending a few days here to get some sunshine and spend time with great friends. Plus, I get to write this while hanging outside in the 80° temperatures — which is not usually the case at the end…
In June, I decided to hit the pause button on all of my creative projects I had been working so hard to build This included weekly emails (like this one) Weekly YouTube videos And even some of my daily habits Some would call it a mistake Some would call it laziness Some would call it…
I used to “feel bad” about using AI. As a creative, it felt like AI was a cheap way of outsourcing my talent to something that knew nothing about my personality, goals, or mission. It seemed like nothing AI could do would actually live up to the standards I had for my personal work. When…
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been an “ideas guy.” In grade school, I’d doodle skateboard designs and come up with skateboard brand names I wanted to create some day. Later on in life, I leaned further into this creativity and always enjoyed the idea of what was possible. The places I’d travel,…
I have tens of thousands of unshared images collecting (digital) dust. I have terabytes of footage that have never seen the light of day (or the flicker of a screen). I’m notorious for capturing life – only to never share anything I create. There’s something about the personal expectation I have, and the finished product…
For years (from roughly 2018-2022), I never shared any of my work. When creating new projects, the feeling of “incompleteness” loomed over everything I did. If it wasn’t perfect – it wasn’t worth sharing. And nothing ever passed that test. During that time period, I thought I was doing myself a favor. I wanted to…
Wouldn’t it be nice to have the creativity of a kid again? Imagination running rampant. Never-ending energy. “Play” as your top priority. Mind like a sponge soaking up every bit of information. Until this week, I had forgotten what that felt like. It seemed like it had been years since I created for the sake…
Last weekend, I found myself in the last row on a crowded connecting flight. It was one of those smaller planes that had even less space than usual – and the last row was no exception. Besides the fact that I was uncomfortably squished in the back of the plane on an already stressful weekend…
Reminder: My new course, The Genius Journal is in the works! Sign up to be the first to learn more about it. When you’re feeling stuck, the problem is that you don’t know what to do next. When you don’t know what to do next, it’s because you’re lacking ideas that will catapult you forward….