‘You should take the note and not the solution’
When someone tells you what’s not working, don’t get distracted by how they think it might work better.
Trail maintenance
The next time you roll your eyes at brand guidelines, you might consider a different mental model for what they help the enterprise accomplish.
To create, one must be a critic
Part of being creative is honing your ability to critique - and that means engaging with popular works as much as it means what you’re actually working on.
Be a Kevin
The Valentine’s Day Bandit has a lesson for all of us about the way we should show up and how that relates to building a meaningful legacy.
“It’s that process that is the magic”
An old Steve Jobs interview outlines why ideas on their own are overrated.
“It’s a tough business”
The truth about agency life, from the mouth of a Methuselah-aged veteranl