Dispatches
Field notes on momentum, getting unstuck, and the tools that work when everything else goes dark. New edition every two weeks. Start anywhere.
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What’s lighting you up?
Not a goal, not a moonshot. Just the small thing that brings you joy right now. A short connection note, and one question Jeff would love you to answer.
What I’m telling myself this week
You made the sacrifice and the reinforcement you need isn’t showing up. Jeff on calorie deficits, launching Color Flow, and what to do in the middle zone.
The most expensive editing I’ve ever done
Four significant commitments that went nowhere visible — a PhD, pilot exams, an unfinished course, and a shelved novel. What happens when you stack your quits and finally see the pattern.
The note she held for three bars
A French Horn player at the Met used one color technique to anchor the most exposed moment in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. Here’s the technique — and how to try it yourself.
The dot that owned me.
Steve Jobs said connect the dots looking backwards. I think he left something out.
The thing I wasn’t looking for
Two years of silence, a move to Thailand, and why I’m writing again.
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