Finding your flow as a writer
What do you do when your creative flow feels blocked, your energy levels are low, or you simply don’t feel […]
Rough Drafts
Unfinished or quasi-finished prose that hasn’t been published elsewhere
Never let AI write your first draft
If you want to stand out from the sea of AI slop in 2026, you need to make AI work for you — rather than the other way around.
Haiku changed my life
One crisp autumn day, on a whim, I started sending haiku to a few friends via email and text message.
Collaboration and photography
This summer, my friend Janne-Pekka Manninen, a Finnish journalist and photographer, began a three-month artist’s residency in Berlin. He invited
It’s Clippy’s world now
When Microsoft first introduced its Office assistant, “Clippy,” it was ridiculed by many. The cutesy animated paperclip came across as
How to write like Neal Stephenson
I was standing in the futuristic, multi-story atrium of NVIDIA’s “Endeavor” building when I saw Neal Stephenson leaning against a
What it’s like to attend a Renaissance Weekend
Last weekend, on a sunny balcony overlooking Monterey Bay, with cocktail chatter in the near background and sea lions barking
Introduction to Listening Poetry
This summer, I took a five-week course from The Good Listening Project to learn the craft of listening poetry: poetry that arises from
Good listening leads to better thinking
A fellow consultant recently asked me for advice on writing and publishing more consistently. He wasn’t asking me to ghostwrite
Writing with (and without) AI
Artificial intelligence complicates things for writers. It’s complicating everything for everyone these days, sure. We all have AI in our