Experimental Stippling

I’m a big fan of personal experimentation.

I find that regularly tweaking the variables that inform my thinking, shape my day, and feed my productive output helps me stay excited about all the things I do (and might do), while also giving me a more three-dimensional view of those same things—which at times helps me identify better ways of doing them or alternatives that might be a more optimal investment of my time and energy.

Such experiments also sometimes help me realize that a dramatic...