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If you’re visiting for the first time, here are a few of my most-read posts:


  1. The Rise of AI: We’re in serious trouble if artificial intelligence gets any smarter. ChatGPT is fueling an AI competition that’s accelerating our path toward the “singularity” – and experts warn that’s bad news for humans. (Here’s Part II of the series.)
  2. The lead designer at sportswear brand ASRV breaks down his creative process and how to bring art to life. An interview with a top designer about finding purpose in creative work, staying inspired, and the challenges of making apparel.
  3. Here’s what I learned writing fiction while launching my career as a business journalist. Book sabbaticals aren’t uncommon among journalists, but I found creative writing and reporting complementary.
  4. The Ultimate Guide to Focus for Creatives: How your aim determines what you see and how you live. You can’t hit what you’re not aiming for. This breaks down concrete tactics, conceptual frameworks, and learning how to see and aim like an artist.
  5. The Ultimate Guide to Habits: Build and measure behavior to catalyze change for a lifetime. The comprehensive roadmap for habits, how to make them stick, what to do if you fall off the wagon, and why they matter.
  6. Being happier with your job starts with reclaiming life outside the office. An interview with Simone Stolzoff on rethinking our relationship with work and lessons on happiness from his book, The Good Enough Job.
  7. I asked 2,800 people for the best life advice they’ve ever received. This is what they said. The wisdom of crowds is rarely wrong. This curated, easy-to-read list is divided into three categories: Relationships, Timing and the Future, and Personal Growth.

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If you like what you see on the site, I recommend my books:

Life Between Moments: New York Stories (2022)

Everywhere But Home: Life Overseas as Told by a Travel Blogger (2020)


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