Building a daily practice, one habit at a time
I have a nasty habit of judging fat people. I look at them and wonder how they got like that, what the hell they are eating, if there was a...
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Your mind is a jail built out of bullshit.
(And why honesty is the long-lost friend you need back in your life...) I sometimes wake early in the morning thinking about stupid stuff I've done and whether or not...
I keep falling off the edge of conversations
The people on my right are having one, as are the people on my left. I'm not involved in either. I fell off the edge of them both a few...
On not making cool shit for Bjork or working for minimal techno DJs in Berlin
When I was fresh out of art school and recovered from the shock that people weren’t physically lining up to employ me at my degree show, I went on the...
Thirteen variations on less.
I stopped reading the news on a daily basis over a year ago. Newspapers have become a luxury reserved for killing time on long journeys. My TV is also long...
My first website
Remember the dulcet, gurgling tones of a 56K modem connecting over your phone line? I can’t think of a more evocative sound from my early online adventures. Apart from an...
Trust your internal bullshit detector
A generic business estate on the outskirts of town. A generic office building. Generic office spaces lined up neatly inside. (Are these places cloned somewhere? Maybe that's what Milton Keynes...
Ang Lee and the uncertainty of success
The story of director Ang Lee's six year struggle to make it in the movie business serves as an inspirational reminder to any aspiring creative or startup founder of the importance...
Be kind to yourself
You are not a hypocrite. The world is a complicated place and you are doing your best to make sense of it. You haven't sold out, you're just being pragmatic. All...
The benefits of (not) finding a mentor…
Reading this insanely long article on how to find a mentor, I felt bamboozled by the variety of possible ways to reach out to people. So instead, I decided to...