In my last post, I shared the two core questions you have to ask yourself if you’re trying to build a creative career. Career. Such a yucky word. Filled with all sorts of chores and stress. Why ruin your perfectly content creative endeavor with boring business? It’s like putting ketchup…

Here are two questions you need to answer if you’re hoping for any success with your creative career. 1. What problem are you trying to solve? People pay for solutions to their problems. Your clients don’t pay you out of the kindness of their hearts just because you’re a nice person. …

The independent musician community might be worried after hearing about Epic Games’ acquisition of Bandcamp last week, but my hopeful prediction is that it will be a gamechanger for musicians. Epic Games owns the Unreal Engine, one of the most powerful computer game engines in the world that powers hundreds…

If you have a job you don’t like and you’re not building a side-hustle to ultimately replace your job, you’re screwing yourself. Especially because your job gives you the one thing you need to accelerate the results of your side-hustle. Money. Your job actually gives you the one fundamental resource…

I saw The Batman last week and it was a masterpiece. My friend described it well: Part Se7ven, part Batman, and part Oliver Twist because he’s an orphan and after three hours I was still going, “please sir, can I have some more?” It was a real Detective Comics of…

Sometimes I feel like I’m living with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The only difference is that she’s a cute one-year-old baby with no knowledge of science. One minute she’s really loving and giving you big hugs. The next moment she turns around and slaps you in the face because…

It was “Öskudagur” yesterday in Iceland, which is our weird version of Ash Wednesday. As usual, the Icelanders bastardize the day in their own eclectic way. Ash Wednesday is kind of like our Halloween but with a fun twist that juxtaposes art and music with commerce and capitalism. You see…

It’s hard to know how to feel when the world is on fire. Watching from afar, I feel shame at how comfortable I have it compared to the hopelessness some must feel. Civilians are taking up arms having done nothing to deserve the fight. It’s in these moments that I…

Did you know that the most popular food in Iceland isn’t some fancy delicacy? It’s actually just the simple Icelandic hot dog. It’s completely different from any of the American hot dogs. It’s made with lamb and has a variety of condiments “native” to Scandinavia. And the best place to…