Time Spent is where I think aloud about the invisible labor that shapes our livesāoutside of our paid jobs, but still work: caring for family and home, tending our mental and physical health, navigating media, making art, and stewarding civic life. Since 2019 Iāve been designing tools and frameworks to aide those reflections. In this season, Iām building The Libraryāa living, searchable archive of my favorite essays, prompts, and frameworks, organized around the questions I keep returning to.
What I Write About
š¬ Process & Practice Lab ā experiments in shaping time, attention, and creative workflow [free]
š” Home as a Care Studio ā reflections on the hidden infrastructure of everyday life and caregiving [free]
š Media & Civic Stewardship ā ethics, literacies, and practices for navigating information, community, and democratic belonging [free]
š§ Companion Machines ā an independent study on emotional literacy, authorship, and building thoughtful relationships with intelligent tools [monthly, paid, + you can also subscribe to just this section]
Become a Library Patron ā
$7/mo or $70/yr
While essays on Substack (where resources are first launched) will remain free, upgrading your subscription makes you a library patron. Patrons get a monthly update on how the build process is going.
Sign Up for A La Carte Library Services ā
Assign Me a Public Prompt ā $200
Each resource in the library is the outcome of me āthinking through a feeling,ā be it about work or life, and building an exercise for myself to navigate that moment. If you want help navigating yours, submit your situation here and Iāll draft a short, shareable prompt as a free public issue.
Hire Me to Design a Private Resource ā [custom quote]
Need a private deep-dive to guide a personal inquiry or group dialogue? Submit here and weāll talk scope and price to build a solo resource or mini-brief just for you.
Book Office Hours - 30 min ā¢ $85
A collaborative, off-the-record call to brainstorm your project or workshop your ideas. Iām not a coach, but I will listen, ask questions, and help you organize yourself creatively!
Here are some popular past posts:
Why do people exchange misinformation? (a psychological perspective)
The work of awakening (how to unlearn+hold space)
Week-beginnings, clusters and constellations (how I read)
Bodies + information (how does what you consume make you feel?)
On the choice to become parents (readings categorized by emotion)
Who I am
After producing and consuming journalism for about a decade, Iāve come to view it as a mindset (and corresponding set of tools) for observing the world and listening to people that can be applied to virtually any situation.Ā Iām currently trying to apply this mindset to my daily life.Ā You can see the formal stuffĀ here.Ā I am also occasionally onĀ TwitterĀ andĀ Instagram.
