How To Get Your Head in the Right Place when You’re Starting a Business

Hi Emilie, I don’t know if you remember our coaching call last year? Well, I’ve finally given myself permission to give the business a proper go. Until now, it has just been a hobby. I’m terrified, but I’m going to go for it. I think I’ve read most of your blog posts but let me [...]

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How To Fund Your Creative Projects Without a Day Job

If you’re reading this blog it probably means that you are an out and proud multipotentialite or at least exploring the possibilities. I, like many didn’t have a definition for my varied and often starkly conflicting interests. A life spent flitting from obsession to obsession: exploring creative, manual work, retail, office temping, academia, writing etc in the process.

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The Dogged Defense of Mastery, and the Fear Lurking Behind it

Some people get really angry when they hear my ideas. Now, I have no interest in forcing specialists to lead multidisciplinary lives. Specialists should indeed specialize because it’s who they are. Multipotentialites, on the other hand, should not. We should all design our lives in a way that meshes with who we are, and not [...]

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My 2012 Annual Review

I’m sitting in my old idea workshop (read: bedroom) in Montreal, between prepping the stuffing and a Skype call with my girlfriend. I slipped away from the holiday madness to take a moment and write to you. The past year has been incredible– the best year of my life (though they just keep getting better). [...]

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Launching a Product in 30 Days! A Case Study of my Apprentice, Jason

I’m sort of emotional right now. Jason Moore just left, after 30 days of being my roommate and “apprentice.” We met at WDS two years ago, and I knew instantly that we would be friends. I just had a feeling. A few months ago, I received an email from Jason. He was living in Norway [...]

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