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A healthy obsession with reading
I’m having a proud Dad moment. Both my daughter and I love books. We are both surrounded by them. We check out a lot of books from the library. We both ensure we have a lot of solo reading time. But, she REALLY loves her books in the way that only kids can get obsessed…
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Defer your decisions so there is more time to play
In a study cited by John Cleese in his short but sweet book Creativity, it’s said that there are two factors that separate the most creative architects from their less-creative peers. One of those factors is the ability to defer making a key decision until the last moment possible. Huh? Why would you want to…
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Wind your spring
A spring is what a mechanical watch uses to store energy. There is a lot of interesting engineering involved but at the end of it, the winding of the spring is what builds up the energy that is then used to run the watch. I was reminded of this by a small passage in Norwegian…
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January 2023 Monthly Review
As part of my regular routine, I try to do a weekly review similar to what I outlined in How I organize using Notion and a notebook. This year, since I’m not sharing my What I learned last week posts or setting amplify and reduce goals, I thought I’d try collecting all these weekly recaps…
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Reclaimed wood shelves and mantle
Although the house renovation is mostly complete inside, there are a few things still on the list. Until recently, adding a mantle and some shelves around the fireplace were one of them, but no more!
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Deus ex machina
I’m nearly done reading Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami and I came across the mention of deus ex machina. I never knew what it meant. “Deus ex machina is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly and abruptly resolved by an unexpected and unlikely occurrence (Wikipedia). I thought that…
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All about the path (Affinity Designer practice)
This week I became reacquainted with the almighty path. Not the proverbial path of life but the paths created in a vector design tool or, more specifically, the path tools available in my vector design tool of choice, Affinity Designer.
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Notice the good things that are happening
Someone, somewhere, probably could use this thought like I did today: “He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have. There was also the merchant’s daughter, but she wasn’t as important as his flock, because she didn’t depend on him. Maybe she didn’t even remember him. He…
Writing and drawings by Nick.
