Scenes
Themes from the past year
A year ago this week, my family and I moved back to NYC.
The previous five years we were on
Creativity
The Parable of the Three Lakes
Before hikes, my partner encourages our family to ask nature a question.
On a recent hike in British Columbia, I
Entrepreneurship
Notes on hiring
Over the past decade-plus I’ve hired many dozens of people. Many of these hires went spectacularly well, and I
Creativity
The cultural Doppler effect
The Doppler effect is what makes a siren change tones as it whooshes by. Because of the physics of sound
Creativity
Worldbuilding is creative resilience
“Artists excel at creating worlds. They do this first for themselves and then, when they share their work, for others…
The internet
The internet feels small here
When I first moved to NYC fresh out of college my stepfather told me something I never forgot. “Be careful,
Entrepreneurship
On competition
There are days you unmistakably feel it: the plans of your project and other projects are converging. What started as
Entrepreneurship
Native behaviors
This was first posted as an internal metablog within Metalabel.
Imagine you’re told you need to direct a percentage