Cozy games offer a retreat from the stresses of everyday life. Cozy games = cozy vibes + self-care 🤗 I’ve hit another slump with my creative practice in the last few weeks. You may have seen, or should I say not seen, last week’s newsletter as it was never written. …

The Song Exploder format is a great way to deconstruct a creative piece of work like a song. I wonder what other things could you deconstruct in this way? What Is Song Exploder? Song Exploder is a podcast (also now a TV show I just found out) that deconstructs songs through interviews with the…

Collage as A Way to Tune out The World and Still Be Creative — I finally took the leap recently and started Collaging. The whole process is a super relaxing way to spend a few hours. It’s a manual craft that allows me to completely tune out the world. Every time I work on a Collage I enter a flow state. …

My digital algorithm is severely limiting the knowledge I have access to. Some context: I read this article by “ Circé Creates”: We need to pop our bubble — a guide to find freedom online. In it, Circé describes the algorithm bubble: “The algorithm bubble happens in the parts of…

The format for my weekly newsletter and how I came up with it — It’s surprising and fascinating how our minds can make unconscious connections we don’t realize. I was going through some random notes in my Obsidian vault and came across this one: ICE Method For Active Note Taking ( Source) Upon reading it I was immediately surprised that I recognized it. I…

A version of this post first appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive posts like this in your inbox every Friday. The desire to document and collect must be something in our nature as humans. I recently watched the Pamela Anderson documentary on Netflix and was struck by everything she…

A version of this post first appeared in my newsletter. Subscribe to receive posts like this in your inbox every Friday. We rely on road signs to navigate safely in our vehicles. When these signs are missing, obstructed, or poorly designed, it puts our safety at risk. I was driving…

This article was re-posted from my weekly newsletter. Want to read it a week early? Subscribe to Design Insight. Spoiler Warning: I will be talking about the TV Show Better Call Saul. …

This is “The Isolator”, an anti-distraction device created in 1925. It was designed to allow users to “concentrate with ease upon the subject at hand” by making it “almost impossible to see anything except a sheet of paper in front of the wearer”. Sometimes I feel like this is how…