Flux & Flow Issue #42 How many times have you tried to organize your digital notes, bookmarks, and research, only to find yourself back in chaos within weeks? That perfectly structured folder system, the elaborate tagging scheme, the note-taking app that promised to become your "second brain," all abandoned when real creative work demanded your attention. Most personal information systems fail to support creative minds not because they lack sophistication, but because they overlook how...
8 days ago • 5 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #41 Design Your Inputs: How to Filter for Focus Without Losing Creative Fuel You didn’t choose most of the information you consume. Not really. Sure, you subscribed. You clicked follow. You opened the app. But somewhere along the way, the system took over. This is what I call algorithmic drift. It's when your information environment is subtly shaped by what platforms want you to see, rather than what you intentionally need. It feels personalized, but the outcome is often...
15 days ago • 4 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #40 Why Creative Minds Need Curation More Than Ever We’ve never had more access to information, yet we’ve also never felt more overwhelmed by it. We follow threads of inspiration across disciplines, bookmark that perfect color palette, save articles about emerging techniques, and chase curiosity wherever it leads. Our ability to see connections everywhere is our superpower—until it becomes our bottleneck. Saved links gather dust. Notes blur into noise. That excellent podcast...
22 days ago • 3 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #39 You’re taking action. You’re staying productive. But everything around you keeps shifting. Priorities realign. Systems unravel. What felt clear yesterday becomes uncertain again today. In moments like this, it’s easy to believe the solution is more motion. More doing. But when the landscape keeps changing, action alone can leave you spinning your wheels. The real problem isn’t effort. It’s orientation. That’s where sensemaking becomes essential. Sensemaking is the...
29 days ago • 3 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #38 You bookmark another promising online course, add it to your ever-growing “someday” list, then close the tab feeling oddly exhausted. Sound familiar? The abundance of learning resources should feel empowering, but for many, it’s become another source of overwhelm. It’s no surprise that most online courses have atrocious completion rates, with studies showing that only about 10% of students actually finish what they start. But this isn’t a format or delivery issue—it’s a...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #37 From Creative Overwhelm to Meaningful Insight Your creative mind is a constant generator—brilliant ideas, unfinished projects, scattered notes, unexpected connections. But when that creative flood has nowhere to go, it doesn’t just sit quietly. It builds up, creating a background noise that makes it nearly impossible to hear your own thinking. The result? Creative overwhelm. Decision paralysis. The nagging sense that your ideas are slipping through your fingers. Most...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #36 Becoming an Antifragile Creative We all want to live lives that feel cohesive, meaningful, and creatively alive. But when everything around us is shifting—our roles, routines, expectations—it’s easy to fall into survival mode. One emergency after another. One reaction after another. Antifragility offers a different path. Originally coined to describe systems that grow stronger under stress, antifragility isn’t just a concept for business or biology—it’s a compass for how...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #35 Why Time-Based Review Matters I’ve seen too many creatives fall into one of two traps while focusing on their work: endlessly planning without consistent action or charging ahead without pausing to see what’s working. My giant archive of half-finished or barely started creative projects shows that I’ve been guilty of both. What changed everything for me wasn’t more effort or better tools—it was developing a rhythm of reflection that helped me step back, realign, and move...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #34 How a community conversation sparked a course — and how to start building clarity into your week today. Most people treat reflection and review as an afterthought — something they squeeze in, skip, or avoid. But when you shift from reacting to intentionally reviewing your work, something powerful happens: You stop drowning in tasks. You start designing momentum. You align action with intention. I’ve seen this transformation in my own work, and it started with a...
2 months ago • 3 min read