So amazing, so illegal. What are we going to do with you, future? That’s my pal, Jonathan Coulton, remarking on the disruptively talented Kutiman, who has made an astounding series of YouTube video remixes that’s lighting up the web and (one imagines) generating a lot of wood amongst our...

Merlin Mann - “Toward Patterns for Creativity” - Macworld PULSE Here’s a video of my presentation, “Toward Patterns for Creativity,” from earlier this month at Macworld, here in SF. My slides were kind of a mess thanks to a bonehead technical problem on my part, but you...

BLOG Senses and Dreams asherah, fae of the kaitka, called up to her winged friend kraka. she was looking for advice. kraka scooped her up in his wings and hoisted her onto his back. together they swooped down the hills in the falling dark, watching the deer browsing for food in the dusk, in the lamp...

Question: I don't seem to have a great attention span - I don't get lost in my work. Is that because I'm not confident in it, or not passionate about it, or just ADD? I would love some advice on how I might coax myself to be more prolific. My Answer: Who knows if you have ADD, but I know that we are...

BLOG synaesthesia: three love stories emma  feeds matthew an apple I i am walking down wellington street in a hurry, late for an appointment, checking my blackberry there is a couple walking ahead of me, hand in hand: they say nothing, and their hands jitter, parting and recombining nervously, ...

If your mall’s bookstores look anything like mine (and it’s probably safe to assume that they do), you’ll find numerous sections devoted to helping writers, painters, musicians, and other aspiring artists to become successful in one way or another. There are books chock full of tip...

BLOG Thawing I' ve been out of town the last few days, on the West Coast. It's a time of great change for me, a time of coming unfrozen, of astonishing learning and self-discovery and joy and sadness and realization. For the first time in decades I'm really living in the moment, raw, open, vulnerabl...

BLOG Not Going to Happen: Part Three (Conclusion) (This is the conclusion to a three-part story. Part One is here; Part Two is here) M arisa had just been making fun of Dan. "All he can think of is that he can't get some young body telling him he's the most wonderful sexual superstar in the world. R...

BLOG Not Going to Happen: Part Two (Part One is here) T he introductions were simple: "Marisa", she said, pointing to her friend. "Verdad", pointing to herself. They sat, side by side, and Verdad grabbed the menu, lightly elbowed her friend, and said something to her, quietly. "Sit", she said, motio...

BLOG Not Going to Happen "It's like this, Jack: Guys up to 30 will generally attract women under 25, which is what most men of all ages are attracted to. Guys from 30 to 45 will generally attract women no more than 5 years younger than they are, and they'll accept that, since the women under 25 are ...