Archive - Microprinciples

You must find the bridge

You can find it or build it; both are the same

Dec 3 •

November 2025

Experience and words are not the same

The longest obituary will never contain a life

Nov 26 •

Yuck, yum, whatever

On protecting early-stage work

Nov 19 •

Guilt is a teacher

The difference between saving face and saving your soul

Nov 12 •

Beauty is better made

Aesthetic disgust and how to push through it

Nov 5 •

October 2025

All sight is hindsight

May you paint the canvas together

Oct 29 •

Power is a dance, not a throne

The courage of receptivity and assent

Oct 22 •

Let it be ordinary

I don't cry for yesterday

Oct 15 •

You can’t all be the main character

We don't need more stars, we need more sky.

Oct 8 •

Never reveal the magic

It’s like explaining the shape of a sneeze

Oct 1 •

September 2025

Change the plane of conception

And you will learn the true shape of the path

Sep 24 •

Keep your first drafts

Wading into failure is prickly curriculum

Sep 17 •

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