Musings

Thoughts and insights of a creative consultant on entrepreneurship, design, branding, and personal growth.

Leadership

Beyond the Title: Shedding the Armor to Do Your Greatest Work

At some point in your career, you’ll get tired of introducing yourself by role or title. And it’s precisely at that turning point that you’ll begin to do your greatest work.
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Systems 7 minutes read

The Four Layers of Creative Sustainability: Moving Beyond Willpower

Why the creative and entrepreneurial careers you admire are running on infrastructure, not effort, and why yours probably isn’t serving you as it should.

When you’re running on fumes and somehow burning the candle at both ends, the most dangerous sentence in a creative or entrepreneurial life is I’ll …

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Ethos 2 minutes read

Eleven Weeks Inside the Machine

Most of our biggest challenges aren’t capability problems. They’re a wicked mix of coordination, infrastructure, trust, and narrative.

The past 11 weeks have been a wild ride through data science, history, ontologies, cleaning data, mapping creative, business and financial supply chains, and recognizing …

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