June 2026
Loneliness is a signal.
Your body has an alarm for disconnection, and it works exactly like thirst. Understanding that changes what you do about it — and explains why the standard advice keeps failing you.
Writing
June 2026
Your body has an alarm for disconnection, and it works exactly like thirst. Understanding that changes what you do about it — and explains why the standard advice keeps failing you.
May 2026
I've watched hundreds of people premiere their first film. The film is never the point. What happens in the room is.
April 2026
You don't need a studio, a sabbatical, or talent. You need ten minutes and one person to hand the thing to. Here's the smallest version of the whole program.
February 10, 2026
Tiny, repeatable acts of making — and the research on why they lift wellbeing and deepen connection over time.
February 3, 2026
Why hands-on making quiets the body's threat response and lowers cortisol.
January 27, 2026
Inflammation, cortisol, and heart risk: how isolation registers in the body.
January 20, 2026
Synchrony and shared making — why building something bonds people faster than conversation.
January 13, 2026
During lockdown, millions made things. The research on why creativity became a lifeline.
January 6, 2026
The famous comparison, fact-checked against the Holt-Lunstad research and the U.S. Surgeon General.