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When I have a headache, I take aspirin. Thirty minutes later, the pain usually goes away. But when my mind starts going to dark places, conjuring up horrible thoughts that are far too ugly and desperate and destructive to be okay with me, I snap out of myself like a werewolf turning back into a man and wonder, jesus christ, did I really just think that? Yes, yes I…

Sentences are my spiritual currency.  Throughout my week, I’m constantly scouring and learning and reading and inhaling and annotating from any number of newspapers, blogs, online publications, books, articles, songs, art pieces, podcasts, eavesdroppings, random conversations and other sources of inspiration. Turns out, most of these sentences can be organized into about eleven different categories, aka, compartments of life that are meaningful to me. And since I enjoy being a signal tower…

A few months ago, I posted my thinkmap, research and narrative arc about why Radio Shack is broken, and how we can use digital to fix it. I’ve been fleshing out the details of my strategic execution, which you can preview in the slides below or on Slide Share. Enjoy!

Yoga and creativity are parallel practices. Both require patience, discipline, flexibility, focus and vulnerability. Both can be done individually or with a group. And both achieve the most meaningful results when I’m wearing as little clothing as possible. Recently, I discovered another quality they have in common. In yoga, it’s actually easier to do the posture than it is to sit out. No matter how tired and sore and…

The biggest barrier to starting is finishing. That’s why so many artists die with their music still in them. They’re too busy twisting themselves into psychological pretzels, paralyzed by the wrong questions: When I’m done writing this script, then what? What if nobody likes it? What if the final product isn’t good enough? What if my work gets criticized and compared to everybody else? Or, what if my audience…

Misery isn’t doing something you hate. It’s becoming someone you hate when you do it. I have no problem executing the grunt work, sucking it up and grinding it out until the job gets done. With a little creativity and lot of focus, I can rationalize most of life’s activities into something at least marginally meaningful. Unless. When an experience causes me to degrade into the lowest version of…

With great chops comes great responsibility. When you’re the top talent in the room, you have a social obligation to share the artistic wealth. To elevate the collective game of the other players. To fight the selfish urge to concentrate all your skills and energies and sensibilities into your own performance and blow everyone away, and instead, to disseminate the volume of your spirit far and wide, so that…

Sentences are my spiritual currency.  Throughout my week, I’m constantly scouring and learning and reading and inhaling and annotating from any number of newspapers, blogs, online publications, books, articles, songs, art pieces, podcasts, eavesdroppings, random conversations and other sources of inspiration. Turns out, most of these sentences can be organized into about eleven different categories, aka, compartments of life that are meaningful to me. And since I enjoy being a signal tower…

Wearing a nametag everyday has its advantages. I’m easy to find in a crowd, strangers are friendlier to me on the subway, I get better service at restaurants and airports, people never forget my name at parties, and I’m statistically less likely to commit violent crimes. That last one is a fact. Sociologically, there’s a direct correlation between anonymity and accountability. You don’t stab someone when everybody can see…

Expecting nothing changes everything. It creates contentment, since you’re grateful for what you have. It builds humility, since you’re surrendering control. It invites calmness, since you’re not meeting some standard. It allows acceptance, since you’re saying yes to what is. Expecting nothing changes everything. It triggers presence, since you’re not obsessing about the future. It achieves freedom, since you’re liberated from the past. It summons wonder, since you’re open…