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I write about design, intersections of art and technology, and ways of reinventing your life through exploration and the stories you tell yourself.

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The Indecisive Moment: Street Photography & AI
The Indecisive Moment: Street Photography & AI

Of rhythms and algorithms. / Reprinted in PetaPixel and DIY Photography.

PRFAQ is a Design Tool
PRFAQ is a Design Tool

Let’s turn a business document into a design tool! Use it in your own toolkit — or to help build a design-as-partner culture at your company.

How to Sabbatical, Pt 1: Jump Off the Train
How to Sabbatical, Pt 1: Jump Off the Train

Last summer I did one of the scariest things I’ve ever done: I quit my job to restore my health, live my dreams, and find my way to my next professional life.

Books

Storytelling & Design

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Is Delulu the Solulu? How a Note from Future You Could Change Your Life
Is Delulu the Solulu? How a Note from Future You Could Change Your Life

How do you imagine your best life? Fake it til you make it, goes the classic aphorism — the idea that “acting as if” you are the person you want to be can help make it be so, make it be true.

First Days as a Nomad Creative
First Days as a Nomad Creative

These first days and weeks are about getting my sea legs as a nomad —acclimating, soaking up environments and beauty, and getting some holiday rest after a busy few transitional months moving and such prior to leaving for the trip.

Of homes and passages or, an update of sorts.
Of homes and passages or, an update of sorts.

Macro and micro reflections on how powerful the forces of "home" are on human beings — what and where we call home, where we find home, and the homes that we carry in our hearts.

Story Laundering, or How to Get Out of Your Own Head to Tell Better Stories
Story Laundering, or How to Get Out of Your Own Head to Tell Better Stories

How often do we tell and retell stories of our lives — in the same ways, again and again?

PRFAQ is a Design Tool
PRFAQ is a Design Tool

Let’s turn a business document into a design tool! Use it in your own toolkit — or to help build a design-as-partner culture at your company.

“Thanks for your feedback”: How to really mean it as a designer
“Thanks for your feedback”: How to really mean it as a designer

Of design jobs being sales jobs and leading with curiosity.

Cuban Mops or, the Top 5 Things that Made Me a Designer
Cuban Mops or, the Top 5 Things that Made Me a Designer

Why did you start doing what you’re doing? Is that still true?

Measuring Magic: How We Can Do Better than “I Know It When I See It”
Measuring Magic: How We Can Do Better than “I Know It When I See It”

So how do we know what is… “cool” or “creepy”, “seamless”, “intuitive”… or even “magical”?

What’s the Story? 5 Ways to Make Better Street Photos
What’s the Story? 5 Ways to Make Better Street Photos

Here are some quick tips to take your street shooting and editing to the next level. / Reprinted in PetaPixel. 

CAREER / LIFE DESIGN / SABBATICALS

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Is Delulu the Solulu? How a Note from Future You Could Change Your Life
Is Delulu the Solulu? How a Note from Future You Could Change Your Life

How do you imagine your best life? Fake it til you make it, goes the classic aphorism — the idea that “acting as if” you are the person you want to be can help make it be so, make it be true.

First Days as a Nomad Creative
First Days as a Nomad Creative

These first days and weeks are about getting my sea legs as a nomad —acclimating, soaking up environments and beauty, and getting some holiday rest after a busy few transitional months moving and such prior to leaving for the trip.

How to Ask Someone to Be Your Mentor (and What Not to Do)
How to Ask Someone to Be Your Mentor (and What Not to Do)

Really good ways to go about it — and some really wrong ways to do it.

Play, Slay, Sashay: 3 New Principles for Thinking about Work or, How to Find Your Groove in All…
Play, Slay, Sashay: 3 New Principles for Thinking about Work or, How to Find Your Groove in All…

Reinventing yourself? Pivoting? Finding your footing in your career? Maybe these principles will resonate with you, too — or inspire you to craft your own.

How to Sabbatical, Pt. 3: Re-Entry + What I Learned
How to Sabbatical, Pt. 3: Re-Entry + What I Learned

It’s now 3 years after the sabbatical and re-entry to workforce, and it continues to be vocationally the best thing I’ve ever done.

How to Sabbatical, Pt. 2: F*ck It, I’m Going Around the World
How to Sabbatical, Pt. 2: F*ck It, I’m Going Around the World

This is one of the best things I’ve ever done in life, spiritually and professionally.

How to Sabbatical, Pt 1: Jump Off the Train
How to Sabbatical, Pt 1: Jump Off the Train

Last summer I did one of the scariest things I’ve ever done: I quit my job to restore my health, live my dreams, and find my way to my next professional life.

PHOTOGRAPHY

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The Indecisive Moment: Street Photography & AI
The Indecisive Moment: Street Photography & AI

Of rhythms and algorithms. / Reprinted in PetaPixel and DIY Photography.

1-Minute Creative: Upcycle Your Low-Res Photos? AI Says Yes.
1-Minute Creative: Upcycle Your Low-Res Photos? AI Says Yes.

How to make your low-resolution photos effectively high-res if you wanna print or publish them.

Be the Camera: Adventure in Passive Street Photography
Be the Camera: Adventure in Passive Street Photography

Building a wearable automatic Raspberry Pi time-lapse camera that I could pin to my shirt.

What’s the Story? 5 Ways to Make Better Street Photos
What’s the Story? 5 Ways to Make Better Street Photos

Here are some quick tips to take your street shooting and editing to the next level. / Reprinted in PetaPixel. 

Tokyo Street Photography: A Brief Tour
Tokyo Street Photography: A Brief Tour

Story of the Street street photography collective asked me to guest host their account for the week of October 1, 2016.

On Being a Female Street Photographer
On Being a Female Street Photographer

Being a women makes me vulnerable on the street, but is an advantage as a photographer. / Reprinted in PetaPixel, DIY Photography, Digital Rev.

Don’t Take My Picture: Street Photography and Public Privacy
Don’t Take My Picture: Street Photography and Public Privacy

As an active street photographer and generally a private person myself, the question of what is a fair subject for my lens is constantly on my mind. And in the age of social media, what is fair or ethical to share to the public. / Reprinted in PetaPixel. 

Everything is Amazing: The Zen of Street Photography for Everybody
Everything is Amazing: The Zen of Street Photography for Everybody

The Zen of street photography for everyone.

PHOTO STORIES

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Paris 1988
Paris 1988
Babel
Babel
NEW BOOK: Tokyo: Shibuya Shimokitazawa Harajuku (September 2017)
NEW BOOK: Tokyo: Shibuya Shimokitazawa Harajuku (September 2017)
Coney Island
Coney Island
Tokyo Street Photography: A Brief Tour
Tokyo Street Photography: A Brief Tour
Oslo Opera House
Oslo Opera House
Hallgrímskirkja
Hallgrímskirkja
Everything is Amazing: The Zen of Street Photography for Everybody
Everything is Amazing: The Zen of Street Photography for Everybody