Welcome to my open design workshop.
I'm a visual designer/developer that uses a cycle of exploration, learning, building, and sharing as my core creative process. I have a lot of creative interests. To stay grounded, I spend a lot of time thinking about:

PRODUCTIVITY

Identifying and overcoming the barriers that keep me from moving forward.

CREATIVITY

Getting past the fears, uncertainties, and doubts that block creative flow.

AUTONOMY

How to make a living, not sell out, and decide what is really essential.

I call this the practice of creative independence, and this website is a kind of open studio where you can see how it's working out; follow along through my main blog and process journals. To see a sampling of work, start with the Productivity Tools Page and poke around. Have fun!

New & Notable Stuff

Download: The Creative Cootie Catcher of Self Reliance
Download: The Creative Cootie Catcher of Self Reliance

The Creative Cootie Catcher

Become more creatively self-reliant, or just get unstuck. Read article.

Product: Mini-ETP Bound Notebooks
Product: Mini-ETP Bound Notebooks

The Mini-ETP Notebook

Now available on Amazon.com! This professionally-printed wire-bound version of the Emergent Task Planner is half the size. More information

Experiment: 30 Products in 30 Days
Experiment: 30 Products in 30 Days

The Product-A-Day Challenge

Making something new every day and posting it for 30 days in a row. See what I made.

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