Unexpected Design Playgrounds
After getting a few positive responses about my (lack) of design on this site, and how that ties in with my partscaster [https://www.cjchilvers.com/25-years-of-creativity-for-200/] post, I thought I could add an aside about one of my favorite design playgrounds. In addition to apps, pens, websites and newsletters,
Welcome to my kinda meh personal site.
This is my new personal site. It has significant changes under the hood, but you’d never know it from the drab design. That will change over time. The important thing is that I have 20+ years of content under one domain (some not visible yet), and a process to
25 Years of Creativity for $200
This is the current state of my guitar collection (the 2 of 5-ish guitars that have survived the wear and tear of the past 30+ years). The one on the left was my daily workhorse until 2020. I bought it in the 90s when my then-workhorse guitar (a blue mutant
“Real” cameras lost.
When A Lesser Photographer [https://www.cjchilvers.com/a-lesser-photographer] was released, I caught all kinds of heat from photographers who said, “Get a real camera.” I had the controversial opinion (at the time) that you could express yourself photographically with your phone and the many other “lesser” devices available. It’
Daily Lunch Notes
I’m still doing these [https://www.cjchilvers.com/my-most-important-daily-writing-assignment/]. Daily creativity can be practiced in many forms. These days, I’m easier on myself — some are totally of the top of my head and others I’ve edited from overused puns. Hey, I’m a dad, a mental condition
Who decides?
Young me: I’m only going to write about things that matter. Older me: You don’t get to decide what matters. The reader does. Young me: Then, how should I write? Older me: A lot.
A Love Letter to the Link Post
I don’t know for sure, but I think my first blog started in 1996, two years after I built my first website. At that time, they weren’t even called blogs. You’d simply update the front page of your website every day with a few interesting links you
It’s Time to Get Personal
The personal website seems to making a comeback. Why? When social networks fail, we return to the hub: the place you own, the place where you control the experience. It's where you're indexed for life, if you're lucky. It's where you'
My Door Is Always Open
Nat Geo put up a great photo essay on rural post offices [https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/history/2020/10/rural-post-office] . See those old P.O. boxes? When my post office modernized in (back in the 90s), they offered to sell us the old “doors” to our boxes.
Overthinking? Try this iOS Shortcut.
As usual, I found myself overthinking this week about small details and not getting much done on the big stuff. It’s been happening too often lately, delaying my newsletter and book projects. But this week, I decided to do something about it. I built a kind of break-glass-in-case-of-emergency shortcut
