When we get an urge to do something creative, often we think too much about it, and the urge fades. Make sure you’ve set up your environment for when you get the urge. You never know when you will feel inspired. Make sure you are in a situation where you can take advantage of that […]

I get the feeling that only so few people have realised it, but we are living in a golden age of self-publishing. Even 10 years ago it was expensive to buy a camera and produce good quality content, although owning a blog was probably easy enough, but could you imagine producing a podcast back then? […]

I used to bike 10k one way to get to and from work. When I left in the morning, there was always a headwind, and by the time I came back in the afternoon, the wind had changed, and there was another headwind. On the off chance that there was a tailwind, I was very […]

Have you read Born to Run by Christopher McDougall? This book will convince you of why you need to run, but also why barefoot runners are excellent for you. I now know what running shoes I’ll be buying for the foreseeable future. In fact, I will probably never change unless they run out of business: […]

Do you ever ask yourself this question? I think it’s a good one. Can you answer it straight away? I can give a myriad of answers but today I felt a form of happiness that I hadn’t felt for a while and it came about through video editing of all things. I’m not sure if […]

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around. Stephen King I’ve been thinking about this a bit recently. I think it doesn’t really matter what medium we use, but we should put more emphasis on creating art. Imagine if school were to simply create creators rather than obedient workers? I know […]

The ancient Japanese didn’t have a word for death. They believed the souls of the dead inhabited the same world as us, so they had no need for the term (the word for death in Japanese 死 (shi) came from China when they brought Buddhism over starting in the 6th century, that’s why there is […]