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Every Visionary Needs A Strategy (the not-quite-podcast)

In this not-quite-podcast-series, Finn Schubert breaks down what it means to have a strategy, how to do powerful strategic thinking, and why strategic work is an unexpected source of power.

Protecting My Creative Energy No Matter What

Being my creative energy's mama bear sometimes means writing a little CSS.

Invoking the Creative Self

Creative work is always a dance between form and void.

How to Make a Personal Website in Five Increasingly Existential Steps

A surprisingly practical guide, because everyone deserves a personal website.

Cultivating Audacity

Comments on a Zen koan from the Book of Serenity (Case 4: The World Honored One Points to the Ground) and how it spoke to me about creative audacity.

Calibrating Your Sharing: A Nerdy Exploration

Another mini-zine inspired by Kening Zhu's Sharing Space Camp class. This one looks at calibration of clinical tests to explore how we might calibrate our sharing choices.

Received and Subtly Answered: Online Sharing as Liturgy

Another mini-zine inspired by Kening Zhu's Sharing Space Camp class!

Better Metaphors Studio

A little place for writers to finish (& sell) small things!

Exploring Ways of Knowing

A work in progress – the beginning of a slide deck or zine about how we know what we know. Often, collaborating across very different contexts or workplace cultures can be challenging due to mistrust stemming from different beliefs about ways of knowing – although the issues are rarely discussed in these

4 Metaphors for Strategy

That aren't levers or bridges.

Substack Really, Really Scares Me

Many people say that writers can make more money elsewhere, or even that Substack is actually bad at paid newsletters. But I'll leave that aside because I'm actually concerned about something else. The Substack writers no one talks to for this kind of article.

My Sharing Story

A little zine I made about my previous experiences sharing my work on Substack, for Kening Zhu's Sharing Space Camp class.

At the intersection of systems, strategy, and story

My essay collection, There Are No Rules for a Pregnant Trans Body, is available! I've started Better Metaphors Studio as a place for writers to finish (& sell) small things. I'm working at the Transgender Strategy Center and available for projects through my little consultancy, Succinct Strategies.

Friends of Fledgling Podcast

I spoke with Sammi LaBue of Fledgling Writers Workshop about self-publishing, embodied writing, metaphors, and so much more.