My Substack

This is a story about clarity of vision and the way it pulls you forward: I know that to be true. But the details of this particular story live only at the very tip of my memory, because it happened when I was just four. So I took the pieces I…

I’ve been running the same. 4.5-mile route since I moved to this neighborhood six years ago. On the slower days, it takes me 41 - 42 minutes. On the fast days when the conditions are just right, I can do it in 38 minutes. I’ve cracked 37 minutes a…

There is something about the freshness of a new page that is so¬† . . . inspiring. And energizing. You can say anything you want. It’s pure opportunity, unedited. In a few days, we get a metaphorical new page, with the new year. But you can make…

I started a newsletter article this week, but it wasn’t in me. For lots of reasons. Mostly, nothing about marketing or storytelling seems that important in the wake of the awfulness of Friday. Yes, business must go on. I definitely still have…

Walking down the steps of a tiny Tribeca restaurant earlier this year, about to meet Seth Godin for the first time, I wanted to die. Sweaty palms, dry mouth: the whole deal. I’d been reading his stuff for a few years, and I had an idea of who he…