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I spent decades in business, software, project management, and teaching. Then I chose to build something different — a creative life that earns. This is the roadmap I used, and I’m still building it. Week by week.
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From The Journal
Finding Flow
For many of us elusive and mourning its absence in our lives. How to find it? And more importantly how to drop into it more frequently? Most of us want…
The 10,000-Hour Misunderstanding: Why Your Creative Tool Isn’t Working Yet
There’s a particular kind of frustration that creative people know well. You’ve bought the course. You’ve set up the software. You’ve got the subscription, the new app, the account. You’ve…
The Palette That Taught Me Everything About Creative Overflow
Your palette gets clogged. So does your brain. Here’s what to do about both. There’s a very specific feeling when you’ve been painting for a while and you look down…
The Creative Life Has to Pay. Here’s What I’ve Learned About Making That Happen.
Success is freedom. Getting there requires being honest about the maths. There’s a conversation that comes up in every teaching context I’ve been part of, sooner or later. Someone is…
Is Bill Bryson the Greatest Advance in Human Civilisation?
An argument for why great communicators matter more than isolated geniuses. I want to make an argument that might annoy some people, so let me state it clearly upfront: The…
One Idea, Three Channels: Stop Reinventing the Wheel Every Time You Post
You don’t need more content ideas. You need to stop treating every platform like it needs something different. Here’s a confession: I spent the first several months of trying to…
Using AI to Clean Up Your Thinking (Not Replace It)
The most useful thing AI has done for my creative work is help me hear what I’m actually saying. I’ve been experimenting with using AI to process my voice memo…
Why Where You Are Changes What You Make
The Italian lakes taught me something about place that I couldn’t have learned in a studio. There’s a particular kind of day that I think every artist needs to collect….
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