Flux & Flow Issue #49 You sit down to plan, hoping to finally get clear on what to do next. Hours later, you’re surrounded by notes, frameworks, and decision trees. Instead of clarity, you feel even more uncertain about what direction to take. This is a familiar pattern for many creatives I work with. The belief is that if you just plan harder, analyze more options, or build the perfect productivity system, clarity will appear. But more often than not, the opposite happens. Instead of...
13 days ago • 3 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #48 I was three weeks into a project last month when I realized I was solving the wrong problem entirely. Somewhere between the project design phase and the actual work, it had drifted away from what I actually wanted to create. The gap between intention and action had quietly widened, and I was too busy executing to notice. What would you do in this situation? You could: Scrap the whole thing and start over, throwing away weeks of work to begin with a clean slate. Power...
20 days ago • 6 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #47 Clarify Your Direction by Designing Intentions You’ve been staring at that project for weeks. You’ve made lists, drawn mind maps, and researched every angle. But instead of clarity, you’ve created a maze of possibilities and now you’re more stuck than when you started. Many creatives I work with know this feeling intimately. The endless cycle of journaling, whiteboards, mind maps, and “strategic thinking” that somehow makes the path forward hazier, not clearer. That...
27 days ago • 2 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #46 When You’re Too Close to See Clearly You’ve been staring at the same draft, deck, or idea for hours. You tweak. You tighten. You second-guess. But instead of making progress, you feel like you’re drifting. You get lost in the details and start to question whether any of it still works. This is one of the most common patterns I see with the creatives I work with. When we work in isolation, it becomes harder to recognize what’s resonating, what’s off track, or where real...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #45 Leveraging Community for Creative Momentum There’s a myth embedded deep in creative culture that meaningful work only emerges from solitary genius and that the best ideas come from grinding it out alone in your studio, office, or a corner café. This belief isn’t just wrong; it’s actively harmful to the creative process. Many creatives I work with share a similar pattern when they are struggling creatively. They retreat into isolation, convinced that “real work” only...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #44 You Weren’t Meant to Learn Alone That Skillshare class you never finished? The course dashboard gathering dust? It’s not a failure of discipline. It’s a failure of design. Most online learning today still treats knowledge as something you download alone. Like a solo mission where you consume content, take notes, and hope it somehow sticks. However, for many creative minds, especially those who have thrived in shared studios, critique groups, or collaborative project...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #43 That project on your desktop isn’t just waiting for more time or better tools. It’s waiting for something deeper. It’s waiting for you to stop carrying the weight of creating alone. If you’ve been scrolling past polished success stories while your own work feels messy and uncertain, you’re not just procrastinating. You’re feeling the gap between what creative life actually looks like and what we’ve been taught it should look like. We’re shown the highlight reels—book...
2 months ago • 5 min read
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...
2 months 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...
3 months ago • 4 min read