The Graffiti Machine

I saw this video the other day. It was a race car driver saying “I’m just gonna put my foot on the floor and I’m not lifting until I see god or the checkered flag”. It got me thinking about this kind…

A couple months ago, I woke up with this crazy feeling and thought ‘I’m running out of time!’. I must have had some crazy dream or something. The thoughts were about running out of time to accomplish…

We use the term ‘Prioritize and Execute’ at the shop all the time. It’s from Jocko’s Laws of Combat. Find the priority and execute. Once complete, there’s a new priority. Then you handle that.

This i…

I was thinking about some concepts that are seemingly at odds with each other, but they aren’t. We’re only alive today. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow hasn’t happened. Living in the present is all there…

Most people think personality traits—like confidence, patience, or staying calm under pressure—are things you’re either born with or not.

But the truth is, you don’t have to stay the way you are if y…

Being able to build and keep momentum has been huge for me. We all go through phases—on track, off track, fired up, burnt out. That’s life.

The hard part is getting back on track when you’re off. Tha…

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about energy management—specifically, what feeds our energy and what drains it.

How many times have you had a bad interaction with someone, only to stew over it for h…

I read the quote ‘What’s it going to take?’ in the book Market Outrageously. It was talking about actually looking deep at a goal and trying to get to the bottom of what it would take to accomplish. …

We all have those small tasks we avoid—paperwork piling up, a cluttered office, or something simple that feels like a hassle. For me, those things build up in my mind and start to weigh on me. But wh…

In this episode, we explore the Craftsman Mindset from Cal Newport's So Good They Can't Ignore You. This idea flips the script on "following your passion" and emphasizes mastering skills as the key t…

January of 2025 marks 10 years of the current version of Machine—I say current only because I started Machine in 2002 as a motion graphics business then transitioned into what we have now in 2015. It…

With the new year and new goals, I thought about the habits that changed my life for the better and put them together as a program. It’s 8 weeks of the following daily habits:

• 10 Minutes of Meditat…

When I'm having trouble creating, I use this technique and it works every time.

Just start. Sometimes you’ll have to force yourself to do it—make anything without worry, just to get moving forward. T…