OK, here’s some thoughts on Star Wars, having watched The Last Jedi twice now. Spoilers ahead. You are warned. There’s really three ways in which to analyse the film. As a standalone action/sci-fi/adventure movie As the second in a trilogy, started in 2015 As a piece of a huge, multi-generational…

The technology & workflow that allowed me to switch after so many years — I love my iPod. This little gizmo has been a part of my life since 2004. We’ve been through a lot together — international trips, crummy jobs, supermarket lines, hurricanes — and for most of that time we’ve been attached at the hip. …

In conversation with my future boss — “Welcome aboard.” You say on my first day. You keep it brief. It only took us a few hours of conversation to develop a shorthand. A cheeky abbreviation of everything said so far. We will, of course, have many more chances to speak thoroughly, and honestly, since we’re working so…

Lessons learned designing & building busycreator.com v3 I recently launched the new version of The Busy Creator website — the third version since inception in late 2013. This one was a challenge. I’d been planning and working on v3 for about a year, and in some ways, since v2 launched…

It’s been a strange Winter, so far. Skipping the play-by-play about what Donald Trump has destroyed in his short time as President, (and honestly, I can’t keep up with it all), I have observed something remarkable which, in turn, brought questions to my mind. A ton of causes and activist…

Every creator needs patronage. It’s an age-old issue, remarked even in the letters of Leonardo da Vinci. The old advertising and filmmaking adage “one for the reel; one for the meal” embodies this idea. It’s unclear whether this is immediately reassuring or depressing, but it does point to one thing…

When Fergus Henderson opened his restaurant, St. John, in London in 1995 it adopted the philosophy that when it came to meat, “it would be disingenuous to the animal not to make the most of the whole beast.” And so a new wave of cooking, dining, and eating came into…

This is a strange time of year. The onset of September comes with a host of seasonal and societal cues, punctuated by Labor Day — the unofficial “end of summer.” And with Summer’s end, also comes the end of vacation season, beach season, sleeping in, barbecues and poolside drinks, long…

I get asked all the time about my setup, and what tools I use on the Mac — which software titles I prefer, and if I modify them in any way, etc. etc. And to all those questions the answer is usually “yes” or “all of the above”, so let…