I see this one book every time I’m roaming the “Self Help” aisle at Powell’s. It’s called Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes. I’ve been through some pretty significant transitions in the last few years, but I only picked it up for the first time recently, after I was laid ...more +
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Working for yourself can be irresistibly alluring. Many unsuspecting creative professionals are drawn to the promise of freelance freedom. Freedom to set your own schedule, to wear pajamas all day, to pick and choose your clients and your work. There is little doubt that self-employment and freelancing offer quite a ...more +
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Last year, I typed “top women in Hollywood” into the internet. A list came up of the 100 most influential women in Tinseltown. I was unemployed, sitting at a coffee shop on a Wednesday afternoon, and had promised myself that I would not go home until I had emailed everyone ...more +
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Paul’s email was nothing more than a list of links and his signature. Haley surveyed the URLs, a who’s-who of local ad agencies with each digital address ending with some variation of /MeetTheTeam. “Hey Paul, are you sending me a virus?” “Just check them out. I sent them to everyone.” ...more +
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In June 2015, we launched a zine. Maybe you remember it? Well, we kept it going as-originally-designed for seven issues. But in the year 2019, we’ve changed up its format a bit. Less a zine, more a newspaper. Less punk, more yuppie. But like… in a cool way. But seriously, ...more +
5 years ago
Here are the titles of seven TED Talks: “Own your body’s data”“Why you should love statistics”“The quantified self”“The Mathematics of Love”“What’s so sexy about math?”“Turning powerful stats into art”“How we can find ourselves in data.” How we can find ourselves in data? I imagine a precocious young student digging his ...more +
5 years ago
Man, each year, a new crop of young and hungry designers and writers graduate from college, put up bombass online portfolios with neato animated elements, and list out all of these new technical skills I haven’t even heard of. Like, aggregated-SEO-C++-analytics-on-rails. And there are maybe a few hours each June ...more +
5 years ago
I always have my eye out for a good decision-making framework, the simpler the better. Imagine my good fortune when this organizational treat from illustrator Julia Rothman fell from heaven directly into my Instagram feed. Of course I immediately began composing my own LESS/MORE list for 2019. In the past ...more +
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