Lean into what you love
It’s easier to lean into what you do want to do than it is to lean out of what you don’t want to do.
The Rough Draft
A weekly newsletter and radio show about consciousness, creativity, and the strange art of being here. From the author of DIY Magic.
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In Praise of Boredom
What if being slightly bored is actually pleasant, peaceful and nourishing?
The Future Is Human
I wrote this Substack without using A.I.
The Ancient Art of Fake it Til Ya Make it
Behave As If a certain thing is true and reality will meet you half way
Ideas Are Real
Where do Ideas really come from?
Why I Keep Writing in the age of AI
What it means to write is changing . . . but is it still worth doing?
The Art of Doing Nothing
I loafe and invite my soul,
Living Comfortably in the Future
Chilling in the Singularity
Episode 18 Living in the Sci Fi Present
The present moment has outpaced the imagination of sci fi writers.
Travel as a mind-altering substance
Returning home from a trip to another culture can feel pretty trippy if you do it right.
Episode 17, Travel is a Mind-Altering Substance
Returning home from a trip to another culture can feel pretty trippy if you do it right.
A Vacation from the News ( Bonus Episode)
Some thoughts from the road on taking a vacation from the news for a few weeks.
Taking a News Vacation
What happens when you take a break from the news?
Episode 16, Getting out of your own way
In today's show we talk with Alexander Technique teacher Micheal Ashcroft about how to get out of you own way
Community IS Resistance
and some thoughts on staying slightly illegible
Episode 15, Community Is Resistance
What is this show even about?
Digital Feierabend
What happens when you give yourself a digital curfew
Episode 14, Digital Feierabend
Digital Feierabend is the concept of having a set digital curfew for phone and screens and letting your evenings be analog.
Practicing Boredom
The best antidote to the weird, weird future
Episode 13 - Practicing Boredom
Terrence McKenna called it!