Sometimes creative work doesn’t need fixing. Sometimes it needs a little distance. I’ve been wondering whether looking somewhere else for a while might be exactly what helps curiosity return.
On My Mind Monday
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I have done the groundwork. The notes exist. The outline exists. I know what I want to say, or at least I know enough to begin finding out what I want to say. The project is not vague anymore. It has a shape, a direction, and several pages of evidence that I have already spent time thinking about it. And yet, starting the actual writing still feels difficult. Not impossible. […]
Stability can feel like a relief, especially after change. But when nothing seems wrong, do we stop asking whether what feels comfortable still fits?
I like change. Most of the time. I enjoy seeing what has changed, clicking around, and figuring out how something works now. A new interface usually makes me curious rather than annoyed. The recent changes to ChatGPT threw me off anyway. I noticed it when we were working on a video script and tried to open it in Canvas. It didn’t work. We tried again. Still nothing. Eventually, we continued […]
Sometimes the hardest part of disappointment isn’t what happened. It’s deciding what story we tell ourselves afterward. A short reflection on moving forward without pretending the setback didn’t matter.
Over the past week, my social media feeds have been filled with discussions about being “too old” for YouTube, social media, and other new pursuits. It made me wonder where these invisible age limits come from, and whether curiosity has ever really cared how old we are.