Hey friend, This week was hard. I think I'm withdrawal. 😣 It was the first week I didn't get to escape to the pottery studio in two years (excluding session breaks) - and I have another 10 weeks to go!! Before you roll your eyes at me, hear me out. last look at the kiln room.... the trap The world is always telling you to focus and narrow your goals, strive harder - this is the key to success. It's easy to take this at surface value and deprioritize everything that doesn't directly benefit...
20 days ago • 5 min read
This may be controversial but, I do not think asymmetry and balance are contradictory. Quite the opposite: I need both for a meaningful life. unlikely animal friends - ambition and balance :) The tension between working ambitiously and with more balance is a constant companion of mine. I recently listened to a podcast that challenged me to really think about this, hard. The guest, Graham Weaver, had a life philosophy grounded in his lived experience as a private equity investor that on the...
30 days ago • 3 min read
I don’t believe in “magic pills,” but if there was one, it would be AWE. northern lights I'm reading Dacher Keltner's 2023 book, Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder & How it Can Transform Your Life, and it’s really opening my eyes to what feels like a secret that I already knew: awe transforms our brains and bodies in a radical and deeply personal way. Awe is the feeling of "being in the presence of something vast that transcends your current understanding of the world." Think: chills,...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read