starting from nix

a case for sharing your dreams with friends

brutally early club, “just ask for it,” and aspiration as agency

Oct 7 • Nix

81

6

20

August 2026

if experience is the goal, then you always win

how to reinvent yourself: ft. the Miles Davis method, Georg Lichtenberg's Waste Books, Cate Hall's You Can Just Do Things

Aug 9 • Nix

170

9

48

June 2026

mental frames for the future

A window of opportunity opens infrequently and rarely stays open for long.

Jun 30 • Nix

52

1

13

We think better when our minds are entwined

on intellectual, creative partnerships / being loved and changed

Jun 7 • Nix

90

4

21

May 2026

new york in spring

+ my interview on Dialectic with Jackson Dahl: "it is through seriousness that you find playfulness"

May 22 • Nix

45

1

8

April 2026

sustaining creative aliveness while working a full time job

tactics for lunchtime poets / writing as identity / extreme commitments

Apr 15 • Nix

1,095

27

230

March 2026

The end of fantasy

Chekhovian loss and being "post-fall"

Mar 26 • Nix

66

8

19

February 2026

making yourself proud

The Greeks say ethos anthropoi daimon.

Feb 23 • Nix

164

14

40

searching for your life's work is a multi-turn endeavor

on pivots + an update: blog is changing, because I have changed

Feb 8 • Nix

98

7

27

January 2026

easy and difficult beauty

"once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand"

Jan 16 • Nix

102

16

31

December 2025

choice loneliness

+ essay recommendation roundup

Dec 30, 2025 • Nix

107

3

28

November 2025

For a long time, nothing. Then, suddenly one has the right eyes.

Cézanne, Joni Mitchell's California, and attunement

Nov 30, 2025 • Nix

117

4

39