A $10 mic. A cheap pen. A steak knife. What they all have in common? They remind me every day that it’s not about getting great stuff—it’s about getting great at stuff.

Here's a drawing of a kiwi.

I take notes in every meeting—not because I have to, but because it helps me pay attention. This is how I built a method that works for me.

Who am I? Who am I to tell people what to do?

For anything you do, there will always be a “day one.” Your first sketch. Your first post. Your first workout. The trick isn’t to nail it. The trick is to get better at starting—whatever it is. To just do it.

The humble binder clip is one of several staple expendables in my Studio (aka. my office) and around my home. Cheap. Reliable. Incredibly useful.

In the TV show The Bear, there’s a scene that shows a wall with a timer and a plaque beneath it. The plaque reads: “Every second counts.”

Sometimes clarity doesn’t arrive all at once—it shows up later, disguised as advice you didn’t know you were writing. This is about one of those moments.

It doesn't matter if it's good right now. It just needs to exist.

Feeling overwhelmed? Write it down. Feeling lost? Write it down. Feeling inspired? Write. It. Down.

Use a pen, not a pencil. Make a mistake? Scratch it out. Live with it. Move on.

Yesterday, after publishing a new blog post—the first one in about two years—I had a realization. I’ve become really good at writing. But I’ve stayed really bad at sharing.

For over a year, I logged every 30-minute chunk I could’ve spent making my life—or someone else’s—better. Every half hour where I gave into impulse and gave up control… was no longer mine.

I woke up at 5:00 AM today, not as part of a "seize the day" productivity practice, but because I struggled to fall and stay asleep. Like many of us, I grabbed my phone and spent 30 minutes scrolling through it, a decision I knew I would regret.

This is the story of how I learned how to code. In short, how I learned was by (no lie) reading through the entire source code of jQuery. I did this about 10 years ago.