Creating music is one of the greatest capabilities of mankind. The ability to capture the essence of the human experience and distill it into a masterpiece that inspires others. Our beating heart.

But it can also be expensive. So how do you fund it?

High level there are three primary ways…

I’m an avid music listener. At home, hitting the gym, driving to work. Different scenes call for different songs. Sometimes, though, I like to return to a playlist I was listening to previously.

And that’s when I’m hit with the pain point, where did I leave off? My Kindle app knows the last page read. Why can’t Spotify bring me back to the last song in the playlist I was listening to…

Instagram recently release a major product update to its ‘Grids’ feature, shifting the aspect ratio of each individual tile that comprises every users profile history of posts from 1:1 square to 4:5 portrait.

However, with this product update, Instagram missed the mark, in my opinion, by failing to incorporate key features into their release that adversely affects the hard work that users…

Over the 4th of July weekend, I had the chance to visit The Great Salt Lake. But what I found at the Salt Lake can only be described as saddening and depressing.

As a hiker, adventurer, and nature enthusiast, I love seeing amazing natural beauty of our world. But as a professional who's been working towards solving climate change for much of my career, I can't help but notice the glaringly obvious signs that we as a people aren't collectively doing enough. Everything the science has been telling us would happen is happening. Today.

Seeing the extent to how far the Salt Lake has depleted (by 2/3 since the 1980's) was a proverbial slap in the face. And so I decided that maybe I shouldn't keep the thoughts that this visit triggered to myself.

Modern brain science increasingly shows there is a connection between mental health, nature, and your ability to perform. In this piece, I explore the science and my personal experience with it.