In my book, The Art of Creative Rebellion, I write about doing something beyond your day job — engaging with a pursuit that is strictly for yourself, not for monetary gain or fame. It’s an uncomfortable place for many of us to be as we feel that any time that…

“Ah man, let’s just do an old-fashioned phone call,” my screenwriter friend, Chris, said to me when we were coordinating a catch up. “I’m burned out from Zoom and Facetime. At least I can multitask if we do a call, rather than being stuck to a screen.” Like many of…

It was an hour before I was to stand up on the massive outdoor stage of the Theatricum Botanicum and I still hadn’t gotten my lines memorized, or “off book” as they say. All I could think of was that my wife and daughter would be in the audience soon…

My last day as VP, Product Design for Hulu was Monday, February 8th. I worked at that remarkable company for five years and one month. It’s a strange, exciting and liberating feeling to move on to new things. It’s scary and filled with unseen potential. During my time at Hulu…

This is my last essay of 2020. A tumultuous and trying year, to say the least. We all know the issues. But the upside is that this year has allowed me to consider and reflect on what is truly important to me. Yesterday, December 21st, was the winter solstice: the…

On November 20th, I participated in the inaugural Rotman Business Design Initiative event by the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. The theme was Decoding Design for Innovation. …

I’ve been remiss in my weekly essays recently as my schedule was overwhelmed with work and changes. It’s all good but it’s a reminder of the always, in-flux nature of reality. I’ve been thinking about how I might comport myself during these times, navigating the changes in life, in work…

I was walking around my backyard this morning, thinking about what this week’s essay should be about when my good friend Tim Kring texted me that I should check out Jack White’s performance on Saturday Night Live. He wrote: “…He (Jack White) is working within an art form that he…

On September 29th I hosted an internal company webinar for Alain Sylvain, who gave an extraordinary speech entitled “The Currency of Otherness.” Alain heads up Sylvain Labs and I met him (virtually) at the 99U Conference at which we both were speaking a few months ago. …