Beautiful Problems

Climbing Thailand

Arrival in Thailand Thailand is a seafarer’s dream. Tristan and I have just left a gig in Shanghai and are sitting with our feet dangling…

New Orleans

Traveling is a good time to think. Things are up in the air, time is moving around in funny ways, perspectives are fresh. The world…

Three people sitting around a table of sticky notes discussing the creative process

5 Tips For Physical Creation

I recently finished The E-Myth Revisited, which proposed thinking of your small business as if you wanted to franchise it. Basically, what systems can you put…

Finding Home

Arrival in Monaco I stumbled upstream through the airport, weaving and crashing through arms and bags in a grown-up game of red rover, past the…

a black and white photo of a mountain path leading into the distance in iceland. There is a man standing far down the path.

Life at Thirty

I re-read a few great articles recently: How to Survive Your 40’s, and one of my all-time favorites, Men at 30, and it made me reflect on my own…

Thundering trees in muir woods, black and white

Addendum

I want to add an addendum to the previous post, on the subject of play and growing up in the country vs. in the city.…

Where We Grew Up

This is where we grew up. Boys outdoing one another with their jumps off the rocks, wet faces sneaking surreptitious glances at the girls when…

Alex standing on a castle wall at sunset.

Exploring Athens

Athens is a sprawling, sweaty city. The buildings are low and extend as far as the eye can see in every direction, a sea of…

G7

We got invited to perform recently with Cirque du Soleil for a surprising event: The G7 Summit, a private show for seven world leaders. With…

Sarasota, ’Merica.

The sun was warm and the breeze was cool in Sarasota, Florida; the temperature perfect and the vehicles shiny, not like in New England where…