“You can be a carpenter this time around.”

I’m toying with the idea of Dunbar’s Digital Number. How many meaningful online relationships can I maintain?

Never Again

I’ve wondered with increasing frequency whether it makes the most sense to start consolidating everything on my own site, but the fact is there’s something valuable about maintaining these different tonal environments.

Old Post-It

So much of this process is just trying to build a system that tells my brain I’m okay.

The Legend of Curly’s Newsletter

When I don’t write in a particular channel for a long time, my anxiety about saying something worthwhile gets amplified. This is extra true with the newsletter, which feels like a sacred space because I’m barging directly into people’s inboxes rather than waving to them across the crowded halls of social media (or muttering to myself in the whispering gallery of my own website).

Service-Agnostic Environments

How is a creative community like a map?

Higher Education

I’m a hindsight junky. I’m always flipping through old journals and sketchbooks, trying to find a narrative through-line that I can string up and hang insights on like so much laundry. The weird contemplative timelessness of Quarantine—not to mention the exhaustive self-reflection that tends to accompany a breakup—has only encouraged this behavior. But it’s not … Continue reading Higher Education

Selves

Tonight I opened Twitter, exhausted from another long day of menial tasks laden with outsized emotional significance because they all have to do with moving, to find this tweet from Beck Tench.1 The thread that follows? I love it more than words can express. This is one of those moments where I wish there was … Continue reading Selves

A Machine for Confidence

Returning to things via tiny machines.