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• 10 / 9 / 2024
  Marching In Step
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• 09 / 20 / 2024
  Lessons From a Year of Painting
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• 08 / 18 / 2024
  Staying In the Ring
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• 07 / 13 / 2024
  Vintage Computer Festival Southwest!
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• 06 / 24 / 2024
  Creative Projects Start in Dark Caverns
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• 06 / 19 / 2024
  5 Years of Programming and Leading With Curiosity
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• 05 / 30 / 2024
  Supporting Evidence for Defining Success for Yourself
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• 05 / 19 / 2024
  The Haps - May 2024
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• 05 / 17 / 2024
  Two Years of Blogging
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• 12 / 31 / 2023
  2023
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• 12 / 30 / 2023
  Lessons From A Year of Drawing
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• 12 / 29 / 2023
  My Reading Year, 2023
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• 12 / 28 / 2023
  Odds and Ends
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• 08 / 10 / 2023
  Neil Gaiman on Writing
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• 07 / 28 / 2023
  I Drew 250 Boxes for Drawabox. Should you?
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• 07 / 24 / 2023
  Picking a Locale — Overcoming the Blank Page with Carl Barks
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• 07 / 18 / 2023
  My Comfort Work and "Do You Like Sentences?"
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• 07 / 12 / 2023
  Service and Expression
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• 06 / 28 / 2023
  How To Make (Anything) In 3 Steps
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• 06 / 20 / 2023
  Automatic Drawing
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• 06 / 19 / 2023
  Winston Churchill on Painting as a Pastime
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• 06 / 12 / 2023
  My First Website from 2005
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• 06 / 8 / 2023
  The Haps - June 2023
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• 05 / 16 / 2023
  Lessons From a Year of Blogging
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• 05 / 15 / 2023
  Holding With a Loose Grip
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• 05 / 8 / 2023
  Deadlines as a Creative Tool
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• 04 / 27 / 2023
  We're All Just Making Folk Music
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• 04 / 27 / 2023
  Nurturing Curiosity
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• 04 / 24 / 2023
  Transience
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• 04 / 20 / 2023
  Creative Legacy
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• 04 / 17 / 2023
  Practice or Play
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• 04 / 3 / 2023
  The Haps - April 2023
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• 03 / 31 / 2023
  Many Pots Boiling
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• 03 / 24 / 2023
  Did I help someone today?
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• 03 / 21 / 2023
  Creative Insights from Miyamoto and Game Composers
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• 03 / 15 / 2023
  Creativity as Conversation
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• 03 / 10 / 2023
  Writing Music is Just Problem Solving
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• 03 / 9 / 2023
  Software is Measurably Valuable Creation
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• 03 / 8 / 2023
  Writing is Efficient Creativity
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• 03 / 6 / 2023
  The Haps - March 2023
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• 02 / 27 / 2023
  Blog to Find Your People
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• 02 / 22 / 2023
  Keeping a Junk Drawer
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• 02 / 20 / 2023
  Vehicles as Eras of Life
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• 02 / 17 / 2023
  The Best Time To Be an Autodidactic Polymath
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• 02 / 14 / 2023
  The Haps - January 2023
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• 01 / 27 / 2023
  Debating Stage Names
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• 01 / 23 / 2023
  A Love Letter to 2000's YouTube
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• 01 / 18 / 2023
  Have a Coke While You Wait?
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• 01 / 17 / 2023
  A Love Letter to 2000s Websites
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• 01 / 13 / 2023
  Terry Pratchett and Real Life Inspirations
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• 01 / 9 / 2023
  Pratchett Had Libraries, We Have the Internet
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• 01 / 8 / 2023
  Finishing a Sketchbook
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• 01 / 6 / 2023
  Blog Tags
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• 12 / 20 / 2022
  2022
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• 12 / 9 / 2022
  My Reading Year, 2022
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• 11 / 22 / 2022
  Sustaining Creativity
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• 11 / 4 / 2022
  Walt Stanchfield & Performing with No Audience
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  • Art
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• 10 / 27 / 2022
  Iwata on What's Worth Doing
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• 10 / 12 / 2022
  Writing Music
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• 09 / 23 / 2022
  Iwata on Creative People
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• 08 / 22 / 2022
  Fluency
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• 08 / 1 / 2022
  30 on 30
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