Playing.

Not a big secret that this is something I care about. I write kind of a lot about play and playing. See: yesterday and … pretty much everything else. Also, I have a Playground, a dedicated space for extreme goofballery. And tomorrow we begin the fourth quarter at the...

Five is for the five year plan!*

I am not a planning sort of person. But when I first started my company, I read seven hundred and fifty million websites about writing business plans. And at least ten library books and back issues of a bunch of online noozletters. The majority of these expressed the...

We don’t need to be big.

We don’t need to think big. We don’t need to do big things. We don’t need to be big. No. Let me say it like this: We don’t need to be big in order to be biggified. And certainly not any bigger than we want to. Some explaining. Some people think...

Nothing is wasted.

This was the hot buttered insight that emerged yesterday (thank you, Shiva Nata). Like most epiphanies, it sounds pretty stupid when you say it out loud. But it’s still a gleaming piece of truth, and now it lives in my body and is a source of comfort. Nothing is...
The Fluent Self