Adagio
As I approach the end of my first trimester and watch the ebb and flow of grief, I’m learning that certain experiences won’t be rushed, no matter how much you’d like them to be.
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Life is a Spinning Progress Wheel
You know that spinning progress wheel? The one that just keeps going until you get fed up with it and you just ctrl-alt-delete and restart the damn thing? Life is that spinning wheel, but there’s no restarting the damn thing.
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My Life’s “Big Bang”
On October 8, 2022, I decided to measure my year from birthday to birthday. To commemorate, I started doing morning pages. I had a healthy streak going—one measured in months, not days or weeks—until life forced me onto the field of play.
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Color is Distracting
I stumbled into the decision to use
filter: grayscale(1);, and I don’t think I’ll go back anytime soon. I find it soothing enough that I may even take it even further and make my entire site shades of gray. -
Taking Stock
A pause in my usual routine to take a look at where I’m at and where I’d like to be. It’s been quite the ride diving back into HTML and CSS and dipping my toe into Javascript.
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The Enemies of Progress
Facing perceived failures has been a lifelong struggle. From hiding my report cards to throwing out credit card bills unopened, I have classically failed to look my perceived failures in the eye.
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The Hard Thing About Hard Questions
I’ve always hated hard questions because I have always wanted to have the right answer. Perhaps it’s because I spent more than a decade identifying as a good student. And we all know that a good student has good grades because they know all the right answers.
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Acceptance
There’s a power to accepting reality as it is. When you no longer invest your energy in denial and frustration, you’ll find yourself free: free to invest in working within the constraints (or if you prefer, working creatively despite the constraints).
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Practice for Practice’s Sake
I’ve always thought that practice was all about repetition in order to perform better. In other words, the goal of practice was to work on your weaknesses and eliminate them.
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Courage by Association
Bayles and Orland's “Art and Fear” suggests that what artists learn from other artists is not just history and technique.
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Hard Days
Some days are the kind of days that make you wish you hadn’t gotten out of bed… and that you could just get back in once you’ve realized that it’s one of those days. Those days ask you if you’re a fighter, if you are resilient, if you can forgive yourself. In short, they ask you what you’re made of. Today was one of those days… and tomorrow is a different day: one full of possibility.
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How Not to Start
What makes it difficult to start a new project, of any kind and any magnitude: a website, a brand, a blog entry? Or how not to be obsessed with how....
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How to Thrive Under Uncertainty
Why uncertainty makes us uncomfortable, some myths about uncertainty, and how to deal with it...
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How to Live with Scarcity
How to cope with imperfection and what it means to have enough and be enough...
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