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Evan Troxel

The Case for Drinking as Much Coffee as You Like

Dr. Peter Martin, director of the Institute for Coffee Studies at Vanderbilt University: What I tell patients is, if you like coffee, go ahead and drink as much as you want and can. Another win for architects. Let's see. That makes coffee good for fighting against: sleep, type

Anticipation vs. Anxiety

Seth Godin: If we define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance, we can also understand its antonym, anticipation. This is a great way to approach taking control of your life. ∞

✱ New Project Parti Diagram

I thought I'd share a parti diagram (this link is great by the way) for a new project I'm working on. We'll use this as a guide for future design decisions - it's basically the 'big idea'. As we start

I Heart Squarespace

Q: "What'd you do yesterday?" A: "Oh, I trucked gallons of fuel up a highrise building by hand most of the day." Here's just one more (huge) reason why I support Squarespace to host my website. They went way above and way

The Best

I completely agree with this piece by Dustin Curtis. If you’re an unreasonable person, trust me: the time it takes to find the best of something is completely worth it. It’s better to have a few fantastic things designed for you than to have many untrustworthy things poorly

Instagram Profiles

I love sharing through photography. I love Instagram. I even have a page here dedicated to it that updates automatically. But now we finally have a place to see our Instagram photos as the creators of the service think they should be displayed. Please check out my gallery that just

The best way to get unstuck

The way to get unstuck is to start down the wrong path, right now. This is exactly what I needed to hear right now. I'm starting on a new project and it's so overwhelming I had that deer-in-headlights feeling. Just get started. The end will come