Why education matters to someone who didn’t get one

by William | Feb 13, 2016

When I was about 16 years old, I dropped out of high school. I’ve waffled on whether that was the right decision, but I’ve never really regretted it. The school system we had wasn’t right for me. I’ve never excelled under ‘authoritarian’ conditions and even in...

I just put my music on Spotify, and here’s why

by William | Jan 16, 2016

  In the last 15 months, I’ve written and recorded 16 songs. I invested hundreds of hours into the project, learning a great deal about how and why music ‘works’. I am, by no stretch of the imagination, an expert or a professional, or even...

How To Be Inspired Like a Pro

by William | May 5, 2015

I had a conversation recently with someone about artistic inspiration. Both of us artists and photographers, he wondered whether some people were simply inspired more often than others. It’s a good question, though the obvious answer is that some people probably do...

How We Make Perfect the Enemy of Good

by William | Apr 11, 2015

This is a straightforward saying that most of us know. The picture it conjures is one of a hyper-perfectionist, grooming their work so meticulously that it never gets finished. The concept of perfect work becomes the enemy of done work–work that was probably...

How to make Doritos Dust Seasoning and eat delicious things

by William | Apr 26, 2013

Credit where it’s due: I didn’t come up with the doritos dust recipe, Vegan Richa did. Well, actually I don’t know if that’s true. But that’s definitely where I first learned about it. Anyway, yeah, you can make your own Doritos dust and...

Writing Blogs is Good for the Brain, So I’m Doing it Again

by William | Apr 23, 2013

A spot of history From November 27th, 2007 through about March 2011, I posted to this blog with a religious zeal. If you were to go back and read through all 1,209 that were published, you’d understand the pun closing the last sentence, and you’d know that by the...