BIG NEW THING! For the last few months I’ve been building free interactive business tools and they’re live today!! There’s a Bookkeeping Wizard (to do complex bookkeeping without Quickbooks!), and tools for pricing work, budgeting, and more! library.studioworks.app

Episode 3 is with my friend & creative powerhouse @jessicahische.bsky.social. We discuss wielding enthusiasm to fight the negativityd, ADHD & mental health, balancing responsibilities, engaging in local community, creativity breadth & depth, and a whole lot more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixBa...

Episode 3 is with the inimitable @jessicahische.bsky.social!  We talk about using positivity to fight negativity, ADHD and mental health, balancing responsibilities, parenthood, local community, breadth and depth of creativity, and a whole lot more: podcast.wakeupexcited.show/3

Jim Parkinson died today. He was a prolific and astoundingly gifted lettering artist, type designer, and painter. I feel lucky to say he was also my friend. typographica.org/on-typograph...

One of the saddest realities of an AI-driven future is that writers won’t be commissioned to write articles like The Upside Down Pineapple As A Symbol For Swinging Culture In Colonial America (Jan 2023) for wholesalenutsanddriedfruit dot com. wholesalenutsanddriedfruit.com/upside-down-...

I’ll never be a real grownup because part of me believes wholeheartedly that I can fix anything in my life by buying a new pen and notebook or adopting another cat

Yesterday I had what I think might be my top career highlight thus far: granting the wish of kerning as The Fairy Fontmother as a part of a musical theater number in a costume I helped design in front of a massive crowd. www.instagram.com/p/DIT9cSZphh...

Today is my birthday (41!) and I have a birthday present request: Today I want you to: - visit a local shop and have a short and pleasant interaction with the person working there (purchase not required but encouraged) - spend 30-60 minutes making or drawing something with analog tools

Adding “, motherfuckers!!” to the end of any basic throw-pillow quote makes it amazing. “The eyes are the gateway to the soul, motherfuckers!!” “Live, laugh, love, motherfuckers!!” “The heart wants what the heart wants, motherfuckers!!”

This article is one of the best, most poignant, most real, most somewhat optimistic but realist things I’ve read in a while. www.itsnicethat.com/articles/eli...?

I think I have to take a Ritalin break for a week every quarter so I can spend 72 hours obsessively posting to the internet about nonsense. Which has been my primary vehicle of biz dev since 2007.

I love that nobody* drinks now. How great is it to just have a little creative beverage that isn’t going to eff up your sleep or make you feel mildly depressed a few hours later *a select group within my age and socioeconomic bracket

One day I will make a one pager website documenting the passing of time via the billboards in San Francisco. I think I moved to SF right before “The Cloud” era. We’ve just tipped over from “Generalist AI” to “AI Agents”

In NYC for a few days if folks are around! (Let’s see if this works as a real time friend bat signal 💗)

Big news! We just launched the Studioworks Community Hub, which is free for everyone that has signed up for Studioworks (which is still pre-launch and free to sign up for!)—invites sent. I'm so excited to make this space the best place on the internet for creatives ❤️ studioworks.community

My 7yo told me I look like “a writer or graphic novel maker” and I’ve been riding high on this for 2 weeks

An artist (Cate McCleery) turned my artwork into a piece of embroidery!! 💗💗💗 Here’s a link to the original print in my shop jessicahische.shop/products/pol...

I wonder if my music taste is going to change or expand since I’ve started ADHD meds… For my whole life I’ve found some types of music to be sonically overwhelming (stuff with a lot of layered instruments) but maybe that won’t be the case anymore?

Manifesting my anxiety for the state of the world as an internal mission to be very on top of nutrition and exercise is not similar to the eating disorder I had as a teen no not at all

No one is mad at kitten content

This little dude found a new home today. Welcome to the fam, Boba! (Was a little soon for me but the kids are in heaven and I’m admittedly loving the snuggles)

Heartbreak is such a wild feeling. A heaviness and hollowing at once.

Farewell my sweet Olive 💔 So happy we found each other 16 years ago. You converted many a non-cat-person with your dog-like ways. You’ve been there through every big life change. So glad you got to spend your last years snuggling in our cozy home surrounded by love. You’ll always be baby #1.

It’s nearing the end of the line for my first “baby” and even though she’s had a long and wonderful life this is really really difficult.

As soon as I get home I’m designing a kindle case with built in fidgets along the sides. Like an busy board for ADHDers who have butterfly brain while reading mildly challenging books

Now that I’m on Ritalin and have a bunch of 3D printed fidgets I’m attempting to read all the books that intimidated me in my younger years starting with Infinite Jest

Got called “miss” instead of “ma’am” by a barista and oh the small thrill this gave me

“Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.”

Feeling big feels from the OAK parking lot. This morning I held my feverish 5yo in my lap. Russ made me coffee, like he does every morning, and I was overwhelmed with gratitude for my life, my health, & my family.

So excited to post the link to the @studioworks.app AMA from yesterday because we talked about some huge big picture greater-mission stuff and I’m pinching myself for this team and how aligned we are on our vision for what we’re building and what we want to do for the creative community!

We’re doing another AMA this morning (at 11 MT). Hope to see you there. :-) bit.ly/studioworksA...

More studioworks.app educational UI fun. Just basically taking all of my Dark Art of Pricing stuff and making little tools / moments.

I now have an easy answer for my favorite work / the work I'm most proud of / etc. And that answer is studioworks.app Been deep in UI/UX design, but also looking for every opportunity to create these magical educational moments in the UI to help creatives make a better living.

Here's the video from the @studioworks.app AMA today if you missed it! Just blaze through my awkward few minutes of gabbing before Chris enters, ha us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/3h... Passcode: #wi2=m30

Just realized we scheduled today’s @studioworks.app AMA at 12 (PT) on 12/12 LITERAL COSMIC SHIT bit.ly/studioworksAMA

A visual metaphor for how I think stimulants work for me: My “normal” ADHD brain state is like a noticeably vibrating object. Stimulants turn up the vibration to the point where it no longer looks like it’s vibrating: it’s still and in focus.

I now have more businesses than children, which is wild because I have three children

Chris and I are doing an AMA tomorrow about Studioworks if you want to join in! At 12pm PST, register here so we can see if I have up my webinar add on subscription 😅 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

In a wild turn of events, I’m officially a tech bro!! @shiflett.org and I along with two incredible developers co-founded and are building @studioworks.app: a business management platform made specifically for independent creatives and creative studios! Sign up for free over at Studioworks.app!

CSS is so much fun. I'm so happy to have an excuse to dig back in because I was so rusty and it's such zen time.

I'm on a Design Advisory Board for Canva, and I want to get professional creative community feedback about how to improve their products and what the general vibe / concerns are. Help me bring your hopes/dreams/concerns to our next meeting by filling this out! forms.gle/XVAh7pFk9GFD...

Being a good parent is teaching how wrong and lazy it is to call someone “dumb” but that “you eat your own poop and love it!!” is probably fine

My Spotify wrapped could have probably predicted my adhd. “Your top five favorite songs is just one song you listened to on repeat for 6 days”

This evening’s reading included the comments section of Pentagram’s mid journey post and a Wikipedia article about Marburg Virus.

Every day there is a new thing to be so f-ing grateful for. So the big atmospheric river that happened here 2 weeks ago? Apparently that water pooled on the roof of my studio and poured in through a crack near a vent onto my cabinets then floor then down to the bottom floor.

My 9yo made this a month ago and I’ve never felt so aligned to her: - spend a lot of time making an elaborate illustrated list - abandon the drawing when almost done - don’t actually do anything on list - yet to come: panic last minute and somehow get it done in the 11th hour

I guess it is time to introduce Bluesky to my latest work, HTML for People. Anyone can make a website with HTML. No previous coding experience required. I cover everything you need to know to get started in an approachable and friendly way. And it’s free for all. 🚀 htmlforpeople.com

As we near the end of 2024, I have some learnings of running two brick and mortar only stores. This will, by nature, need to be a thread, but know my heart is pure and I just want to be helpful / share My Truths. Backstory: I opened two stores at the end of 2023. 1/

Feeling like everything you do and make has to change someone’s life for the better is a lot of pressure to put on yourself. But it’s also so f*cking exciting to believe it’s possible!

Worlds biggest brand with enormous loyal customer base chooses to not give 80%+ of sale profits to another company