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Essays on AI, creativity, rest, and the craft of meaningful work – most first published on Medium, now living here. Newest first.
76 essays · 2018 – 2026 · sorted by date published
Time Off 29Productivity 25Articles 24Creativity 22Self Improvement 18Time Management 14Leadership 11Rest Ethic 11Writing 10Work 9AI 8Noble Leisure 8Philosophy 8Biohacking 7Deep Learning 7
2026
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18 essays- Using the Idea of a Work-Rest Fractal to Find Balanced Success10 min read2021-12-05
- The Togetherness Epidemic: How to Balance Hyper-Connectivity5 min read2021-09-07
- Rethinking the Extroversion Ideal5 min read2021-09-05
- How the Breath Controls the Heart3 min read2021-08-21
- The Income Energy Product: A More Meaningful Way to Assess the Value of Your Job8 min read2021-08-12
- Introducing Yudemon10 min read2021-08-11
- Universal Basic Income, Degrowth, and the Future of Work13 min read2021-07-27
- Stop Apologizing for Your Late Replies5 min read2021-07-19
- Noble Leisure Is the Antidote To Languishing6 min read2021-06-15
- How to Travel Without Leaving Your Neighbourhood6 min read2021-05-13
- Deliberate Cultivation of Playfulness Is the Key to Success in Creative Work6 min read2021-05-01
- The Dubious Trait of Being a “Fast Learner”9 min read2021-04-06
- Rest and Recovery are Part of the Work – We Need To Start Treating Them That Way8 min read2021-03-14
- Using the Three Key Phases of Change to Strengthen Your Rest Ethic6 min read2021-03-14
- Three Key Steps To Take Now To Strengthen Your Rest Ethic6 min read2021-03-01
- How I Used Resonance Breathing and HRV Training To Combat Anxiety32 min read2021-02-28
- The Ultimate Self-Tracking Study on Sleep, Caffeine, Alcohol, and More31 min read2021-02-28
- 30 Minutes of Journaling that Changed My Life5 min read2021-01-16
2020
13 essays- A Year in Books - 20207 min read2020-12-25
- Filling Your Free Time With Meaning Might Be the Key to Well-Being and Success7 min read2020-12-18
- The Most Overlooked Way to Increase Your Productivity: Take More Time Off6 min read2020-12-09
- The Subtle Art of Pacing, Active Recovery, and Sitting With Pain12 min read2020-12-08
- How to Use Delay and Deliberate Procrastination as a Decision Making Tool6 min read2020-11-19
- Balancing Your Efforts with a More Nuanced Sense of Urgency7 min read2020-11-09
- How to Use Delay and Deliberate Procrastination as a Decision Making Tool6 min read2020-09-13
- Why We Need to Approach Work and Rest with a “Not Only, but Also” Mentality5 min read2020-08-24
- Why We Need to Approach Work and Rest with a “Not Only, but Also” Mentality5 min read2020-07-23
- True Leisure is Much More than the Absence of Work5 min read2020-06-07
- True Leisure is Much More than the Absence of Work5 min read2020-06-01
- Rest is Productive3 min read2020-05-27
- CompressionVAE - A Powerful and Versatile Alternative to t-SNE and UMAP12 min read2020-02-29
2019
11 essays- A Year in Books - 201911 min read2019-12-23
- SampleVAE - A Multi-Purpose AI Tool for Music Producers and Sound Designers13 min read2019-11-08
- When You Feel like You Can’t Live up to Your Own Writing3 min read2019-10-25
- Why You Should Have a Field Manual for Your Life12 min read2019-10-02
- Using Incubation to Unlock Your True Creative Potential18 min read2019-08-26
- Next Level Art and the Future of Work and Leisure33 min read2019-07-02
- Reflect on Your Rest2 min read2019-06-28
- The Power of Sharing Your Creative Process13 min read2019-06-19
- From Office Worker to Author, Musician, and Artist in Less Than Two Years12 min read2019-06-15
- Our Distorted Image of Prehistoric Societies and the Impact of Agriculture10 min read2019-02-03
- How to Achieve Your Ambitions in the New Year16 min read2019-01-03
2018
25 essays- A Year in Books - 201813 min read2018-12-24
- The Effects of Caffeine, Alcohol, and Exercise on Sleep: Analyzing the Surprising Results20 min read2018-12-04
- The Creative Power of Aimless Strolls4 min read2018-11-26
- NeuralFunk - Combining Deep Learning with Sound Design22 min read2018-10-25
- Happiness is Not an External Thing to be Found9 min read2018-09-25
- Coffee and Physics3 min read2018-09-08
- If You’re Lost in the Forest, Let the Horse Find the Way Home7 min read2018-08-29
- The Art of Taking Action6 min read2018-08-15
- Cultivating Your Inner Citadel13 min read2018-08-13
- The Deepest Blue8 min read2018-08-03
- Explaining Quantum Physics to the Emperor of Japan6 min read2018-07-27
- Notes From A Beautiful Greek Island10 min read2018-07-20
- How Much Coffee is Too Much?5 min read2018-07-17
- Why I Love Physical Books11 min read2018-06-25
- A Tale of Old Japan, Told Through Drum & Bass7 min read2018-06-04
- Our Evolving Interaction with Technology13 min read2018-05-28
- Where do you go when you really want to get some work done?5 min read2018-05-15
- How I became a "Top Writer" on Medium with only Three Articles6 min read2018-05-04
- An Ode to Paper8 min read2018-04-24
- The Variational Autoencoder as a Two-Player Game – Part III14 min read2018-04-16
- The Variational Autoencoder as a Two-Player Game – Part II10 min read2018-04-09
- The Variational Autoencoder as a Two-Player Game – Part I17 min read2018-04-02
- The True Cost of Meetings7 min read2018-02-25
- The Corruption of “Sense of Urgency”6 min read2018-02-12
- In Praise of Deep Work, Full Disconnectivity and Deliberate Rest43 min read2018-01-10