Comparison is terribly misunderstood. Some say’s it’s good because it breeds competition. Other says it’s bad because it screws up your self-image. I think both of these groups are wrong. Comparison is natural and it’s also completely neutral. The dangers and benefits of comparison are in the scale not in the comparison itself. For example,…
Read MoreBroken Movies
I’ve spent the last week watching mostly 80’s films, Christmas films and general kids level fluff. And I’ve enjoyed the shit out of it. I think I’ve finally found a way to mute the creator mind and just watch something passively. I like that these films are what they are. They have low goals, and…
Read MoreTime May Not Be the Problem
The question of Time continually rears it’s head. I did two episodes of Creative Minds on Time this season and I know it’s only a scratch or two on a very rough exterior. Time is an obstacle for us all. How do we find enough? How do we manage what we have? Why does it…
Read MoreA Poor Estimate of Time
Everything I do takes longer than I expect it to. I sit down to do a few edits on a podcast, an hour goes by. I decide to make a short little video clip for Instagram, 2 hours go by. I go to edit a vlog for YouTube and I lose 4 hours. The next…
Read MoreMy “Read Later” Queues Are Killing Me
Every time I see a story I want to read, I bookmark it on Medium. I have lists like this everywhere but I can never seem to get back to zero. As I write this I have 43 articles save on Medium, 32 videos saved on YouTube, 13 podcast episodes waiting in Castro, 158 unread books…
Read MoreLounging Away Our Lives
How many articles have you read online that tell you social media is worse for us than smoking crack? Or that the 24 hour news cycle is making us reactionary and ignorant as a society? How many decades have people been saying that 6 hours of television every day is just not natural? And it’s…
Read MoreCreative Poison
We all like to think that creative people are another class; that they exist on some higher plane than the rest of us where everything is easy and amusing. We like to think that they have a clear vision of what they are doing at all times; a clear vision of where they’re headed, and…
Read MoreRead Less. Learn More.
What would you say if I told you that reading one book can be more valuable than reading fifty? That re-reading something familiar is more valuable than reading something new? What would you say if I told you that you could learn more by reading less? Information Overload With 1,500–2,000 TV shows aired, 600,000–1 million…
Read MoreWant to be more productive? Don’t go paperless.
Brick-and-mortar bookstores are closing their doors. Libraries lend out e-books. Receipts are emailed or texted. Bank statements are sent electronically. We file our taxes online, and our digital calendars will remind us of the looming deadline. The world is going paperless…or is it? When we stop to take a look at the tools we use…
Read MoreFinding Lights On
As a creative exercise Lynda Barry often suggests people to vividly visualize a scene from their past. She suggests a granularity I had never considered with things like: look down at your feet & what do you see. This process has been something I find myself doing, not as a journaling habit but rather as…
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