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Have you ever allowed someone else’s behavior to determine how you experience your own day? It can be disastrous. One minute you’re calmly doing your work, enjoying the workday. And then your tornado of a coworker storms into the office and starts venting about his psycho model roommate who stares over his bed at night, and before you know it, your heart is racing and you’re clenching your jaw…

The beta user feedback on Prolific has been priceless. Thanks a million y’all. The product is already better than it was a month ago. Now, many have asked for a product tour, so I cut this short video to highlight key features and the problems Prolific solves for creative professionals. Enjoy! P.S. Only 24 (of 100) Founding Member spots left. Snag yours today!

You need someone who is for you. No matter what you say or reveal to them, they’re on your side and want to help. Even if they disagree with or disapprove of what they hear, they still give you the space to speak your truth out loud, and they hold it with you from a vantage point of unconditional love. Someone who isn’t afraid of your feelings and trusts…

Powerlessness elicits a nauseous sense of existential dread. But it might also be the most liberating feature of the human condition. Owning our powerlessness, accepting the fact that we cannot offer ourselves or those we love protection from danger and pain, it actually makes us stronger. Whereas a life revolving around trying to control and fix every goddamn person and situation is exhausting. That’s the hallmark of people with…

Certain people are suspicious of all people. They go out of their to find all sorts of reasons to write others off. And unfortunately, they’re usually right. Confirmation bias is a very powerful thing. When they encircle someone with suspicion, the idea of trust just starts to dissipate within that person. They prove themselves right every time. And so, they just keep soldiering on with fierce independence, never learning…

Recording music in a studio is a fascinating and stressful experience. Having released eleven albums in my career, it’s funny how every time studio day comes, the butterflies still get into formation. Scientifically, it’s because of the observer effect. It states that the act of observation has an effect on the thing being observed. Ask any professional recording artist. When every move you make is put on wax, it…

Deserve is a problematic word. For centuries, we have been justifying all sorts of awful behavior simply because we accept the belief that certain people receive more or less because they deserve it. Deserving is nice story to help make sense of the world. But the reality is, nobody actually deserves anything. The gods have not chosen any of us. The idea of people getting what they deserve might…

Carlin famously joked: School was nothing but the indoctrination center where children were sent to be stripped of their individuality and turned into an obedient, soul dead conformist member of the American consumer culture. That’s not a punchline, that’s perspective. Because his joke is not really about school, it’s about sovereignty. George’s words are a rebellious reminder about how our culture is very good at hypnotizing and dulling our…

We live in a world where stupidity is encouraged, embraced, rewarded and repeated. As if it were some kind of virtue. Everywhere we look, from individual people to mass media to large institutions, the world seems to be conspiring to put out our collective intellectual fire. Our environments are pressuring us not to think. Flip through the channels or the streams, and one thing is clear. Stupidity has become…

Barnum knew that the public didn’t mind being lied to, as long as those lies were more sensational and entertaining than the dull, everyday truth of their miserable lives. He may have been a hoaxer, but he still added something to the way the world was that made it more tolerable. As he says in his movie: Hyperbole isn’t the worst crime. Men suffer more from imagining too little…