Writer, Product Designer, and Software Engineer
Project note-taking is one of the simplest yet most powerful techniques I use to capture ideas, reflect and make progress on all of my goals. Project notes are a diary tailored for each step in the journey.
Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu once wrote in “The Art of War”: “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”
Ever tried assembling a puzzle without the image on the box?
‘Well,’ the man said, ‘if you don’t want to you don’t have to. I wouldn’t have you do it if you didn’t want to. But I know it’s perfectly simple.’ ‘And you really want to?’ [the girl said] ‘I think...
Energizing Instrumental Lofi Beats Music for flow, productivity and creative doings.
Awhile back I was walking along a beach when I came upon a series of heaped rocks stacked on top of each other. In English we can refer to these man-made piles of stones by the Gaelic term, cairn. In...
ChatGPT has changed how I journal. In the realm of personal and creative endeavors, few activities are as intimate and reflective as journaling. It is an avenue for exploring our thoughts, processing emotions, and capturing our life journey. Yet, in...
The room was noisy, and the faces of our judges seemed distracted as we gathered in front of them to pitch our project. It wasn’t an ideal scene to have a conversation, let alone attempt to explain the problem we’d...
Tick-tock, tick-tock. Time is one of our most precious resources, yet it often feels like it slips away without us even realizing it. What if there was a way to better see where you spend your time and use it...
Uptempo Lofi Beats Music for energized flow, productivity and creative doings.
Have you ever struggled to finish a creative project? Felt disorganized, uncertain, or unmotivated when it comes to making progress on a single song or even finishing an entire multiple song album release?
Have you ever found yourself in a creative rut, struggling to find inspiration or motivation to create something new?
How long would it you take to learn music production and produce your first music album? What are some of the stages and steps in such a journey? And what are some practical lessons and tips I uncovered as a...
For me, an annual review is an evaluative narrative reflection on the past year and year ahead. Basically an annual review is a way for me to take account on the broad outlines of the positive’s and negative’s from the...
What would it be like to have greater self-awareness about where our time goes? What would you learn about yourself if you saw how you spent your minutes and hours each and every day? How might you discover and notice...
I read a few more life’s worth of books in 2022. According to my reading logs, I read a total of 58 books spanning 17,365 pages. The average length of a book I read was about 299 pages. I had...
At the start of each new year, I pull together all of my data from a range of self-tracking services. I then use that data to calculate average numbers and generate charts and graphs about different aspects of my past...
“I just wish I had more time” Everyone
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” George R.R. Martin
Music to Take You Somewhere