Blog Posts
Deliberate Practice & Self-Reinvention, Open Sourced.
The Best Way to Buy, Trade & Withdraw Cryptocurrency (Canadian Edition)
Detailed step by step walkthrough of the fastest and cheapest way to trade and withdraw your crypto for Canadians.
CabinDAO: LARPing as a City State
CabinDAO is an online and IRL community using blockchain technology to help creators make a living online. This essay is an exploration into how the DAO came to be, including the projects and problems it’s trying to solve.
Web3 IRL: A Cow & A Treasure Chest
Two fun projects that CabinDAO took on, that shows how digital projects can cross into our analog world.
“A Prehistory of DAOs", Annotated
“A Prehistory of DAOs” is an essay that Gnosis Guild cofounder Kei Kreutler wrote. As its name implies, this piece traces the DAO’s ancestry from its organizational roots to its digital infancy.
Flow, Autotelics, and The Paradox of Solitude
Growth is a result of having an autotelic self. Autotelics become who they are through solitude — which counterintuitively, leads to better integration in the world around them.
DAO Leadership as Showrunning: What Do Core Contributors Do?
A DAO grows when people start believing in and opting into its narrative, the future it wants to realize. Guild leaders or core contributors find the best way to disseminate this vision as widely and quickly as possible.
My Core Contributor Role Proposal for ₡ABIN
I’m now a core contributor at ₡ABIN. Here’s the job description I wrote for myself.
On Recovering My Creativity: The Journey Back to What Makes Me Happy
I was a liberal arts student, masquerading as a commerce student. I’m reconnecting with my inner child, trying to make up for lost time.
Shallow Work Is Necessary for Creativity
Creativity is merely a reflection upon a life of action. Living the rest of our lives is the action that provides the necessary material to fuel our work.
Stop Working 8 Hours a Day
What if a 40-hour workweek is detrimental to my writing, even though I have my old energy back?
What Happens When You Fail
I failed pretty bad this week and published only 2/5 posts. Here’s a personal reflection on why it happened and what I’ll do about it moving forward.
On Rediscovering Magazines
On a whim, I bought and read a copy of The New Yorker from an airport newsstand. I had one thought as I read page after page on my flight back to Toronto: Gosh, I miss this so much.
Reflecting on the Past Month: Building My Content & Distribution Flywheels
This essay you’re reading is the 4th and final longform piece I’ll be publishing as part of cohort 3 of the Creator Cabins Residency. Here I break down my content creation and distribution flywheels and outline what’s next for my writing. This essay is kinda like an investor memo for you and I hope you enjoy it.
“What’s a DAO?” — A 5-Minute Primer for Normal People
DAO stands for decentralized autonomous organization. DAOs are communities of people who share the same interests, work on the same projects or in similar industries, or hold the same beliefs, built on the blockchain.
How Web3, NFTs, & DAOs Upend Modern Marketing
In the next 10 years, a marketer’s ability to weave a narrative — fiction or otherwise — that brings people together will matter more than onpage SEO or keyword volume.
Don’t Sleep on MasterClass (Even If You Love Cohort-based Courses)
MasterClasses are a good mix of inspiration and application. They’re the next level up for cohort-based course veterans who want battle test their learning strategies, as well as learn new fields.
Lie Like An Artist
Good artists tell the truth, great artists lie with the truth, and how to do both without losing your soul.
Creative Lessons from Logic: Turning Pain into Music, Handling Haters & Why He’s Not on the Internet
Logic a.k.a. Bobby Hall II is a rapper, author, and now actor, best known for his Grammy-nominated single, 1-800-273-8255. Today, he popped into Write of Passage Cohort 7 to jam, field questions, and freestyle along the way.
Making the Anne-Laure Challenge Harder with Investigative Essays
Each week, 1 out of my 5 weekday posts will be a longform investigative essay. These will dissect modern brands, ideas, products, and companies through the lens of classic business principles.
Working in Public as a Writer: Using Blog Posts as Reporting Memos
How do I maintain the momentum of daily publishing, while working on longform essays that challenge my brain and stretch my writing ability? Enter the reporting memo.