Flux & Flow Issue #75 Stop treating your life like a test Three project ideas are open in front of you. All of them seem important. One could stabilize your income. One feels creatively inspiring. One feels strategically smart for where your industry might be heading. You toggle between tabs. You open a new browser window to research a little more. You tell yourself you are being thoughtful. Responsible. Strategic. If you could just find that missing piece of information that would provide...
8 days ago • 2 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #74 The Distorted Lens We don’t invent our interpretive lenses. We inherit them. Productivity culture hands us one. Hustle mentality hands us another. Comparison gives us a third. Each one quietly transforms useful information about our actual patterns into personal failure. Instead of seeing what is happening, we create distorted interpretations of what we believe it should mean. Productivity Culture: Linear Progress = Success This distorted lens converts natural creative...
15 days ago • 2 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #73 A month ago, you might have sat down with your coffee, your notebook, and a sense of possibility. You reflected on the year behind you. You set intentions for the year ahead. Maybe you chose a word. Maybe you sketched a new weekly rhythm. Maybe you built a fresh dashboard or reorganized your projects so this year would finally feel more aligned. And now it’s February. Things have moved forward but you may be getting a sense that something is off. Maybe you aren't making...
22 days ago • 3 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #72 When you pause to notice where your focus actually goes on a daily basis, not where you think it should go, but where your time and energy are really being spent, you may notice something uncomfortable. Things feel unbalanced. Fragmented. Despite good intentions and an ever-growing to-do list, your attention keeps getting pulled in multiple directions. Progress feels slower than you hoped. Not just in your work, but in the parts of life that matter just as much and...
29 days ago • 4 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #71 Work/life balance is a lie. Not because people don’t mean well when they talk about it. But because the entire framework is built on a false premise. Because what is “life,” in this scenario? Everything that is not your job? Your health, relationships, hobbies, rest, and creative practice all bundled together and weighed against what you do for income? What about the creative work you do whose primary intention is personal expression? The projects that matter deeply but...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #70 You value creativity. You value learning. You value generosity. But what do those values actually shape in your day-to-day life? You know what matters to you. You can name it easily. You might even have it written down somewhere. And yet something still feels off. You look at your calendar and see back-to-back meetings when you said deep work mattered most. You scroll past unopened courses after telling yourself learning was a priority. You say yes to work that drains...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #69 The “reset” energy is everywhere right now. New planners opened to pristine pages. Productivity systems redesigned from scratch. Notion databases rebuilt with better architecture. Apps downloaded with genuine hope that this one will finally stick. We watch the videos, save the templates, declare our intentions. January feels like the perfect moment to become the organized, focused, clear-headed version of ourselves we keep imagining. But before you build anything new,...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #68 What It Means to Be in a Season There are stretches where everything feels harder than it should. Not because you have lost discipline. Not because you need a better system. But because you are in a different season than the one you are trying to plan for. This week, I want to offer a lens I have been using personally and with others when things feel out of sync and clarity feels elusive. Not as a productivity method. Not as a goal-setting exercise. But as a way of...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #67 Flux & Flow: A Moment of Gratitude As we move toward the end of the year and into the quieter rhythm of the holidays, I wanted to take a moment to say thank you. Thank you for reading Flux & Flow. For making space for reflection in a world that constantly pushes for more output. For staying curious about how to build momentum without burning yourself out. Your presence here matters more than metrics or milestones, and I’m genuinely grateful you continue to show up week...
2 months ago • 2 min read