Thoughts From Deep Within The Forest

Innovating to Failure

I used to tell people I wasn’t a runner, mainly because of the very obvious lack of running experience prior to August, 2012. But since August 26, 2012 (according to Strava), I’ve gone on 540 runs, totaling just shy of 2,500 miles (2,496.2 miles to be exact, so by the time you read this…

Why Awards Maybe Aren’t All That Bad

Awards competitions are flawed, and it’s easy to rail against…

Seeing The Forest For The Trees, or Why I’m Starting Something New

Sometimes the beginning starts with an end, or the end starts a beginning. Or maybe it’s both?

Choose Your Own Adventure

The Future for Employees, Freelancers, Agencies, and Clients in a Changing…

My Vulnerability

On finding that a crucial aspect of self improvement is being vulnerable

The Permanence of Change

What I Learned From Getting My First Tattoo In My Mid-40s

What is Joy?

Can we be joyous without being anxious? Does joy come from the tension of first having not-joy, the worry that what we are doing may not, in fact, lead to joy? Without worry, is there then no release of not-worry, no being justified or unfounded in our imaginative results? If we are only anxious, can we…

100 Haikus / Lessons learned from the writing / Nothing is easy

What I Learned Over 100 Days, Writing 100 Haikus, for My #The100DayProject