Filmmaker, performer, writer. Can drive stick.
💡Ahoy! I’m still somewhere on the Atlantic, so here’s a repeat view of one of my fav issues of the newsletter. A friend of mine once asked me what it was like to be a writer, and I said, “A constant state of grief and disappointment.” That was
💡Part V (and the finale) of The Edinburgh Cycle: five unlikely and useful things about creativity I learned from performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe It was well after midnight. The lounge-singing puppet Danny O’Hare and I stood alone on a makeshift stage in a vaulted stone cellar in
💡Part IV of The Edinburgh Cycle: five unlikely and useful things about creativity I learned from performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe The Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The world’s largest arts festival. Where such talents as Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, Craig Ferguson, and Robin Williams (?!) started their careers. A quarter
💡Part III of The Edinburgh Cycle: five unlikely and useful things about creativity I learned from performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Making anything is frightening. If you make something, it’s going to be looked at. And people might say mean things about the thing you made. And about
đź’ˇPart II of The Edinburgh Cycle: five unlikely and useful things about creativity and project management I learned from performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe So last week I talked about how I use (manipulate?) the Dunning-Kruger effect to motivate myself at the beginning of a project, and to then
Part I of The Edinburgh Cycle: five unlikely and useful things about creativity and project management I learned from performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe So I decided to produce a cabaret show. Which I had never done before. And I decided to sing lounge music in it. Which I
đź’ˇSPECIAL BULLETIN I am happy to be writing this newsletter for such an interesting group of people such as yourself. I would like to be writing for an even larger number of interesting people. And I figure interesting people like you know interesting people like you who aren't
When you look at your own life, oh my gosh, so much stuff has happened. Almost every day, you experience something that you carry with you forever. Sometimes it's a boon, sometimes it's a limp. And these incidents often occur in clusters, bunched together by time
Well, it's late January, and the New Year's Resolutions are starting to decay like Julian Glover at the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Resolutions can be fragile. They are often big changes, with only one "win" state. Everything else is "
On a recent trip to San Francisco, my brother and I took a Waymo driverless taxi to get to and from a restaurant. I found the experience smooth, seamless...and oddly puzzling. So let's talk about robot cars and whether they truly are automated harbingers of a coming
I’m locked in a beef with Sir Ridley Scott, director of such classics as Gladiator, Thelma and Louise, and Alien. Particularly Alien. He, of course, has no idea we are in conflict. Nor should he care. But aware or not, he and I have a fundamental disagreement. About the
Happy New Year to you. So glad you made it. So far, I've launched over a dozen of these newsletters into your inbox. About a calendar quarter's worth, on a (mostly) regular cadence. And now, as 2024 fades in the rearview mirror, is the last quarter