When I walk into a bookstore I quickly sniff out the well worn path to the self-help, business, and art sections. One of the challenges with non-fiction (especially self-help and business books) is that a lot of the advice is predictable, overly simplistic, or doesn’t feel actionable. It’s an ongoing search for truth or answers […]
Last weekend I ended up getting sick. We all get sick and usually the experience isn’t very eventful. For some reason, this time felt different. I was still mostly able to function, but my pace was a lot slower. More notably, I felt frustrated because it was harder to complete everything I wanted. That frustration […]
Last week we talked about not knowing what to do. I get it. We don’t always know in advance and creative work is frequently an iterative process. You take a step in some direction and the next step is partially a function of the first step you took. The challenge with embracing an iterative process […]
“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right” -Hunter S. Thompson Three interns started on Monday. Part of their onboarding was meeting with every department and getting a sense for whatever it is that a Financial Services firm “does.” Starting a new job usually comes with some flavor of anxiety that manifests itself as excess ambition. […]
Birthdays tend to trigger self-reflection. Sometimes that reflection creates context. You spend time thinking about what you’ve done and where you want to go. It’s easy to feel like we haven’t “done enough” even though we usually make some progress over the course of a year. Even though time is arbitrary, there’s something about our […]