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Essays

Over the years, I’ve written a collection of essays, both about craft and about life in general. I hope you enjoy them!

List of all essays:

  • Meditations on Craft
    • A Box of Chocolates
    • Achieving Mastery
    • Clinging
    • Creativity, stash, and hoarding
    • Discipline and creativity
    • Fail faster!
    • Giving yourself permission
    • Honoring the Divine
    • Into the Wilderness
    • Iterative design
    • Learning to Think
    • Mind the gap
    • On Creativity
    • On Kits, Creativity, and Weekend Projects
    • Slow living
    • The Loss of the Creature
    • The Myth of One Idea, and the Peril of the Perfect Choice
    • The Perils of Categorization
    • The Value of Craft
    • Thoughts on The Road Not Taken
    • Ways of seeing
    • You Don’t Need to Be a Master!
  • Mental Illness
    • Living with Bipolar Disorder
    • Mental illness is not the same as evil. Nor does it cause mass murder.
    • Why I’m lucky, among people with mental illness
    • Your “normal” is not my normal: Why people misunderstand mental illness
  • Philosophical musings
    • Choosing to Follow
    • Courage
    • Foreigners
    • On Being An American
    • On Harnessing Chaos
    • Shaping Life
    • The Potential Myth
    • The Safety Trap
    • Why I Ride

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