A SHORT SEASON

small thoughts on spending it well
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October 27, 2026

Designing Moments

The smallest piece of time you can actually feel is about three seconds. Most of them slip by unnoticed, unless you build a few into your day.
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October 13, 2026

Sands slipping through the hourglass, pt. 2

George Orwell warned that screens would be used to watch us. But he missed the real danger, that we can’t stop watching the them.
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October 12, 2026

Sand Slipping Through The Hourglass, pt. 1

It’s so easy to let time pass as if we have an endless supply. Recognizing it is the first step.
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March 25, 2025

More On Time

I released our newest video project: Memories: The Stuff Of Life on YouTube and Instagram Sunday. It delivers a message I’ve been thinking about since I was pulled kicking and screaming into middle age several years ago. The message is one from your older self looking back on the years. I used AI to age myself into an old man
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March 18, 2025

On Time

“Why are you so obsessed with death?” Geoff asks me as we walk back to the truck. We’d been looking for elk that morning. It hadn’t gone well. His question sticks to me like gum on the bottom of my boot because I’d never realized that’s how my writing lands with people. I don’t know Geoff. This is the first
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September 8, 2024

I’m Dead

watched a video on YouTube this week and that was the title. “I’m Dead.” It turned up in my suggested videos with over 3 million views at the time (as of writing this it’s wracked up more than 7 million). Me, with my fascination with death and the psychology of death couldn’t resist watching it. At least for the first
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March 25, 2024

Life Advice From A Hitman

One of my favorite movies of all time is Collateral. It stars Jaime Foxx and Tom Cruise. Foxx is Max, a mild-mannered cab driver in Los Angeles. Tom Cruise is Vincent, a professional hitman at the top of his game. Fate brings the two together when Vincent hails Max’s cab at LAX and hires him to drive from hit to
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October 2, 2023

Right Now Is All There Is

I‘m sitting above a deep canyon with my eyes buried in glass. I’m panning left and right, while Josh and Ricky are panning right and left. We’re looking for fuzzy antlered mule deer. Josh has a tag and his bow. The three of us have been in this exact spot doing this exact thing at this exact time of year
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February 26, 2023

Time Passes By

You’ve beat the odds and are alive on this spinning rock hurdling through space; congrats! You’ve made it, but now what? Time passes regardless of what we do with it. Whether we are wildly dedicated to making the most of our short time here on Earth or simply watching it pass by like the bubbles in a lazy river, time