Opening the Seed Vault
Sharing my stash of creative, business, and project ideas
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Words left behind while following my curiosity
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August 2025 Recap
Small wins, legibility struggles, and selling sawdust
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June 2025 Recap
Small-town networking, AI-powered entrepreneurship, and finding opportunity in Maine's landscape
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May 2025 Recap
Curiosity as a career, AI-powered entrepreneurship, re-wilding landfills, and matchmaking for founders
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Thinking Like a Shrimp
The quiet roles that make bold goals possible
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Where Ideas Live
Walking, wondering, and paying attention as tools for discovery
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Build Mode: Final Update
A wrap-up that feels more like a kick-off
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Exploring the Next Draft
An unfolding story of who I am and where my work might be headed
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Opening the Seed Vault
Sharing my stash of creative, business, and project ideas
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Build Mode: Update 2
Departments of delight, detour, and discovery
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Clam Chowder and Other Small Dreams
In praise of the miniature bucket list
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Build Mode: Update 1
A subway map for Maine, poems about money, AI Tinkering, and more
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Build Mode
A creative sabbatical to make what matters (and what doesn’t)
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AI for Nature
A reflection on AI’s potential impact on the environment and a non-comprehensive list of ways it could be used for good.
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Conditions for Good Work
A reflection on the qualities and attributes of my "good work"
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Why I Started a Maine Outdoor Newsletter
Outlining my motivation for starting the Maine Outsider newsletter.
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How to Run a Curation Newsletter with Ease
Learn how to create a curated newsletter with specific examples from my experience.
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How to Automatically Track Webflow Sitemap Changes in Airtable
A short tutorial and script you can use in Airtable to automatically track and manage changes to a Webflow sitemap.
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Persistent Curiosity and the Seemingly Mundane
Exploring what it means to be persistently curious about seemingly mundane things.
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Themes I'm Exploring
Three business themes and cultural trends that interest me.
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Know Your Patterns
Learn to recognize the design patterns that influence our behavior online.
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The Jack and Max Show
A 45 min unscripted conversation in Lima, Peru. Recored but never published for an experimental podcast project.
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Fear of missed opportunity
What I've learned about opportunities, choice, and focus.
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Business
An abridged list of business and side project ideas
Sharing business and side project ideas I've written down in my notes app over the past few years.
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Question storming: A guide for brainstorming questions
A tactical guide for brainstorming questions. Covering the basics and background of using structured inquiry to generate innovative ideas, surface opportunities, and inform design decisions.
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You can do marketing
A simplified look at what it means to market an idea. Debunking the notion that marketing is a specialist skill reserved for experts.
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Reflections on a spontaneous year
I look back on a year filled with travel, learning, and questions, including a hike in the Peruvian Andes, a month on a vineyard, and an unexpected detour to South Africa.
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Confidently curious: A journey of questions
How I learned to appreciate questions and their ability to create positive change.
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10 days in the Cordillera Huayhuash
A collection of photos and stories from a 10-day trek in the Cordillera Huayhuash range in the Peruvian Andes.
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New Years Evolution
An unusually personal reflection, covering my learnings from 2018 and outlook for 2019.
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My favorite quotes and ideas of 2017
A list of quotes and ideas pulled from my favorite books and articles of 2017.
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Creativity and individuality: Unlocking the positive potential of travel
Exploring methods and mindsets we can use to travel in a more personal and impactful way.
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16 tools in my startup marketing toolbox
A brief explanation of the tools and techniques I find useful for creating and executing early-stage marketing strategy.
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Creative Writing
Fleeting Magic on the Río Samaná
Looking back at a magical 5 day journey, by raft, through the Colombian jungle outside of Medellin.
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