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The Difference Between Authority and Impact Is Whether You Listen
The difference between authority and impact is whether you listen. I spent 25 years learning that the hard…
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Why Everyone Should Study Graphic Design (Even If You Never Design Anything)
Everyone should study graphic design, even if they never create graphics. How design teaches fundamental thinking.
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Playing With Purpose: Clear the Pipeline
Playing With Purpose Exercise 4: Clear the creative pipeline. Ten minutes, every idea in your head on paper.…
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The Resume Problem: Why My Students Can’t See Their Own Skills
My students can’t see their own skills. It’s not confidence — it’s a language problem that starts before…
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Playing With Purpose: The Delight Diary
Exercise 4 of 20 from the Playing With Purpose Student Edition. From Book 2: The Spark (Exercises in…
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When You Stop Learning, You Start Dying
My Aunt Georgie lived sharp until the very end, and watching her taught me that staying mentally active…
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Dad Taught Me How to Prepare
My father wasn’t the kind of man who said ‘I love you’ out loud, but he spent every…
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The Double Load
My ESL and Spanish-first students aren’t just learning design. They’re learning design through a second language, and we’re…
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The Fax Man
I was doing content marketing in 1991, before Seth Godin named it. Five hundred faxes a month, three…
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Playing With Purpose: What Doesn’t Feel Like Work?
Playing With Purpose Exercise 3: Find the activity where time disappears — not distraction, but genuine absorption. That’s…