RIP Email Again
Dan Oshinsky is back with his monthly look at email newsletters, Not a Newsletter [https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1pySiYQ_5OMsj1U4r5XXLPru0NtiVg2FVaO5INBlNffk/mobilebasic] , a terrific resource if you’re not already subscribed. This month, he writes about how he’s expecting another round of articles proclaiming the death
Have you ever met Eddie Van Halen?
I get this question about once a week, because I wrote this book [https://www.cjchilvers.com/the-van-halen-encyclopedia], so this will be the link I send everyone to in the future. Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Yeah, kind of. Once. Here’s the photo. I’m the one Alex Van
Experiment 1: Sivers Style
The reason I moved my personal site was to start some experiments — to see what I liked to publish and what my readers liked too. The first experiment was to implement the same idea Derek Sivers had last year with his books. I think it’s genius. The idea he
Default Apps for Productivity
What you choose as your default tools for your projects should employ the same amount of constraints as the tools you use for creativity: just enough to spur results and not enough to let stuff slip. Everyone’s brain is different. Everyone’s job is a little different. This is
“You’re Wrong About…”
Is easy. Is often the first comment on any piece of content. Is often under-researched and over-confident. Is a lower form of content. Is a popular form of content. Is way less power than “I was wrong about...”
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’