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Why Books Matter More In the Age of AI (And How to Read Better) | with Alex Wieckowski
How do you make time to read more books and build a reading habit that lasts in a world full of distractions? Alex Wieckowski, better known...
How the Written Word Helps Us Connect (Especially In Our Hardest Moments) | with Allison Sweet Grant
We seldom write for ourselves because we instead want our stories to touch others. Yet we’re often terrified to put our work (and ourselves!...
The Introvert's Pocket Guide to Building Genuine Connections In a Disconnected World
Walking barefoot across a minefield of LEGOs or robbing Kevin McCallister on Christmas Eve still sounds more appealing than networking to me...
We've created a world where nobody knows our names.
My father was the unlikely combination of a small-town hero and a reclusive introvert, yet still built a network where everybody knew his na...
How to Not Get F•cked by AI: A Creative's Manifesto
In this mini episode, I imagine being thrown back to the “Dark Ages” of 1994 with no Internet, no Google, no AI, and I ask myself where I’d...
Is it too late to de-enshittify our humanity?
In this mini-episode, I explain why calling out the enshittification of modern technology doesn’t make me a Luddite, even if I’m a Xennial w...
The Enshittification of Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
In this mini episode, I vent about the moment I realized everything feels harder than it should, from parking apps to paywalls to bots talki...
Feel like you're always behind and never enough? Blame work-life "balance."
I’m doubling down on the live grenade I tossed into the room when I said work-life balance is bullshit, and in this mini-episode I unpack wh...
When setting goals triggers an existential crisis
What happens when the simple question “What do you want to achieve this year? And why?” leads to an existential crisis? In this mini-episode...
The crippling fear of never knowing what's "next"
When uncertainty feels constant and exhausting, this episode explores how to ignore almost everything outside your control, accept that unce...
How to know exactly what to do next when everything feels uncertain [HSF]
What should I be doing next? That’s exactly the question I tackle with my student, Marcella Garcia, in today’s Hot Seat Friday. And here’s t...
Nobody warns you this could be the last time.
This mini-episode from my lastest Substack article is a quiet gut punch and a wake-up call. A single Christmas photo opens the door to the m...
Get unstuck, get clear, and hit the ground running in the New Year [HSF]
If you're feeling a little bit overwhelmed, and if it feels like all the effort you've been putting in this year is not leading to the resul...
You are not lost. You are just asking the wrong question.
What if the reason you feel stuck, burned out, or off course isn’t a lack of effort but the fact that you’ve been blindly walking in circles...
Why boredom might be the key to reclaiming cognitive fitness [HSF]
In today’s Hot Seat conversation, Julie and I dive deep into what it really feels like when your creativity and cognitive clarity start slip...
When boundaries aren't enough to keep you from picking up your phone, you might need this.
This mini-episode taken from my latest article in the Digital Essentialism Series on Substack pulls back the curtain on the likes, comments,...
Work-Life Balance is futile; pursue "Strategic Imbalance" that aligns with your values and goals [HSF]
In today’s Hot Seat, I’m talking with Joe Dobson, who’s feeling stuck trying to balance earning paychecks with actually building his career....
Know your next step with a SCARY Goal that work towards your Vision [HSF]
In today’s Hot Seat with one of the students in the Arnold Academy, Brandon Holmes, we dig deep and talk about some really existential stuff...
You don't need a flip phone. You need a philosophy.
In this mini-episode, I unpack my 2198-word “old man yells at cloud” rant about how algorithms are the new cigarettes , diving into the sigh...