Finn Schubert

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On Creative Process

the shape of completion

I'm working on consolidating all of my work on this new Ghost site, and I'm thinking about what it would mean to feel complete. The blog or newsletter form often has a sense of incompletion – there's always a "next one" that you

What You Really Want

What You Really Want

A tiny zine about diagrams for clarity of purpose.

What do you believe happens to ideas?

A picture is worth a thousand words...

Or do ideas work like this?

An umbrella called "mental blocks"...

Be ruthless in discerning what works for you

Now is a time to get deeper in our understanding of what is easeful for us. Be ruthless in discerning what works for you. Separate that which is uncomfortable because it is on your growth edge from that which is not yours to do. Perhaps the ultimate "productivity hack&

Who sold us the idea that we need a tagline?

Appreciated Fred Tally-Foos' piece niching down is bad and inhuman about the idea that “we need to be able to give our elevator pitch, explain who we are in a concise way on a resume or an Instagram bio, and use that clarity to move forward in life.” I

Sequencing

I’m a huge fan of Michelle Warner’s Sequence Over Strategy podcast. Her newsletter is great, too. She chooses stories from her own life to illustrate her main points about business design. Doing things in the right order is more important than doing them perfectly. She also emphasizes understanding