Writing
Writing is how I stay honest about what I actually think. The ideas here started as questions I couldn’t resolve in a meeting or a slide deck — things I had to sit with until they became something I could say clearly.
Articles are published here first, then syndicated to Medium.
A Mediation on Trust-First Leadership
Building teams through radical trust, biblical wisdom, and the courage to believe people are exactly who God made them to be.
The Long Middle: Wilderness Years and the Path to Design Maturity
A letter to designers in bad jobs — on patience, humility, and the career that unfolds when you’re not looking.
Be Still and Know You’re Burnt Out
Trading the cult of productivity for the sacred art of rest - and maybe finding your soul again in the silence.
The Eye Never Has Enough Seeing
We scroll for hours searching for that one thing that will finally satisfy — and never find it. A writer who died three thousand years ago knew exactly why.
Three Paradigm Shifts in Design: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Creative Destruction
Every few years someone announces design is dead. After three decades and three apocalypses, I’ve learned that’s usually just the field preparing to promote you.