<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Justin Andersun]]></title><description><![CDATA[The personal blog of Justin Andersun, solopreneur and fiction writer.]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com</link><generator>GatsbyJS</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 05:25:57 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Just Enough]]></title><description><![CDATA[Giving what is due]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/just/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/just/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exit the Cave]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ain’t it fun, livin’ in the real world?]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/cave/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/cave/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[But First, Infrastructure]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gardening amid ravenous rabbits]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/infrastructure/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/infrastructure/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home Economics]]></title><description><![CDATA[Changing the world, one HVAC filter at a time]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/home-economics/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/home-economics/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lose the Rope]]></title><description><![CDATA[On giving up the illusion of security]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/lose-the-rope/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/lose-the-rope/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frozen Turtles]]></title><description><![CDATA[Less precious than you think]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/frozen-turtles/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/frozen-turtles/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seventeen Cavities]]></title><description><![CDATA[The future isn't fixed]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/floss/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/floss/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Festina Lente]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reclaiming an antidote to panic-stricken times]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/festina/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/festina/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wrinkly Razor]]></title><description><![CDATA[The case for inconvenience in our smooth new world]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/wrinkly/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/wrinkly/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bitter is the Eye of the Beholder]]></title><description><![CDATA[The four stages of spiritual cancer]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/invidia/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/invidia/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Mask is Slipping]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why we demand dreams but punish pretension]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/pretension/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/pretension/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Demonic Force Sedating Your Soul]]></title><description><![CDATA[A long-forgotten sin has unraveled your resolutions]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/acedia/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/acedia/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seattle in Zazen]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities. In the expert’s, there are few.]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/seattle/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/seattle/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Trust Ratio]]></title><description><![CDATA[All ratios are wrong, but some are useful. I’ve recently started to track my weight, subcutaneous fat percentage, basal metabolic rate, and…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/trust/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/trust/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Core Product, Whole Product]]></title><description><![CDATA[If Thanksgiving were a product, it would have mixed reviews. Some people love turkey and stuffing. Others hate the heavy food. Some enjoy…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/whole-product/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/whole-product/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yogurt Making]]></title><description><![CDATA[I started making homemade yogurt. It’s not complicated: mix some starter, vanilla extract, and whole milk and cook it over low heat for…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/yogurt-making/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/yogurt-making/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Halloweenacy]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Friday the Thirteenth, my cousin married a man with a pumpkin on his head. As storms raged outside the unheated barn, I watched the…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/halloweenacy/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/halloweenacy/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Preference Pyramid]]></title><description><![CDATA[A donkey died in the desert. Some say it died of dehydration, yet it was only a stroll to a watering hole. Others say it died of starvation,…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/preference/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/preference/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fork in the Stone]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Bear is a television series that follows an award-winning chef who returns to Chicago to run his family’s sandwich shop. In the second…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/fork/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/fork/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Papercuts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Let’s play product designer for a moment. Imagine this user story:

As a corporate employee I want to increase my 401K contributions So that…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/papercuts/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/papercuts/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woodshedding]]></title><description><![CDATA[Saxophonists create magic with improv jazz—their free-flowing harmony knowing no rules yet delighting the ear. Like any magician, jazz…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/woodshed/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/woodshed/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maps and Territory]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have this arbitrary goal to climb the highest point in each of the fifty United States, and enough other people share this arbitrary goal…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/map-territory/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/map-territory/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Galápagosization]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a rural Chinese village, Wu Yulu builds robots from scrap metal. One of his walking, talking robots with rubbery lips pulls the farmer…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/galapagosization/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/galapagosization/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome the Hydra]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hercules underwent twelve labors, and his second labor was iconic: slaying the Lernaean Hydra. A reptilian creature with twelve venom…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/hydra/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/hydra/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware Scale]]></title><description><![CDATA[I live three blocks from three grocery stores with three unique names, yet they’re all owned by one company. QFC, Fred Meyer, Safeway…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/scale/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/scale/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Portmanteau Strategy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Urban planning nerds love to hate a stroad. “Too ugly!” they say, “Too dangerous!” Most towns built in the last century revolved around a…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/portmanteau/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/portmanteau/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bike Commuting]]></title><description><![CDATA[When my office reopened in 2022, I had to relearn commuting. I tried driving, but I couldn’t stomach the daily parking cost. I tried public…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/bike/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/bike/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ski Lesson]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ski season is over in the Northwest, but I’m grateful for my experiences on a half-dozen mountains this winter. From the upper bowls of…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/ski/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/ski/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glass, Rubber, and Cloth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cloth In high school, I was obsessed with unicycling. I filmed videos balancing on the roof of my parents’ house, won the school talent show…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/glass-rubber-cloth/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/glass-rubber-cloth/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[After-Dinner Mints]]></title><description><![CDATA[My favorite Seattle restaurant scores high on three dimensions: friendly staff, reasonable prices, and tasty food. Aptly called Amazing Thai…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/mints/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/mints/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Party of One]]></title><description><![CDATA[I never played Dungeons & Dragons, but I was always fascinated by the character classes. Like the fellowship in The Lord of the Rings or the…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/party-of-one/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/party-of-one/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rootwork]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I was ten and obsessed with Redwall, I arose an hour early to write a page for my fantasy saga about warring anthropomorphic animals…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/rootwork/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/rootwork/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cover Crops]]></title><description><![CDATA[February is the month when New Year’s Resolutions go to die. We might as well cancel that gym membership, pause our Duolingo subscription…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/cover-crops/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/cover-crops/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start with the Jar]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you’ve seen Rudolph: The Red-Nosed Reindeer, you’ll remember the Island of Misfit Toys. When sitting around a fire on Christmas Eve, the…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/jar/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/jar/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four Frames]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have a document called “resolutions.doc,” where I log my new year’s resolutions. I’ve been writing resolutions for so long that the file…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/four-frames/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/four-frames/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social Arithmetic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Any good novel or film illustrates that people “contain multitudes” and aren’t reducible to numbers. From a humanist perspective, this…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/social-arithmetic/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/social-arithmetic/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Conversational Octopus]]></title><description><![CDATA[The words we use to frame an interaction can flavor our behavior. For instance, are we having an argument or a conversation? Argument is War…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/octopus/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/octopus/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven Puzzles]]></title><description><![CDATA[It’s puzzle season in North America. During these dark, cold months, I’ve come to enjoy jigsaw puzzles to get off screens, do a low-stress…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/seven-puzzles/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/seven-puzzles/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steering Pegasus]]></title><description><![CDATA[Everyone has the potential to do great things, and I’d venture half of us have the ambition to realize that potential. But few can manage…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/pegasus/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/pegasus/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going Reptilian]]></title><description><![CDATA[The world is complex. But navigating complexity is taxing, so we gravitate toward simple dichotomies of this or that, one or two, red or…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/reptilian/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/reptilian/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking Caps]]></title><description><![CDATA[Are we anything but the roles we play? Be it at home, work, or play, we wear a dozen hats: Parent, friend, volunteer, manager, peer, runner,…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/thinking-caps/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/thinking-caps/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankensteining]]></title><description><![CDATA[I hope you’re enjoying spooky season. With Halloween around the corner, I thought I’d spill some ink about a season classic: Frankenstein. K…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/frankenstein/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/frankenstein/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finding and Making]]></title><description><![CDATA[I spent the last two weeks in Budapest visiting coworkers. Alongside goulash, bathhouses, and palinka, I enjoyed learning a Hungarian folk…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/find-make/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/find-make/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Embracing Seasonality]]></title><description><![CDATA[What if knowledge work changed with the seasons? Last week, my sister and I hiked the Skyline Trail at Mount Rainier—a beautiful romp…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/seasonality/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/seasonality/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caves and Cathedrals]]></title><description><![CDATA[How does our environment shape our thoughts? My favorite short story is “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver. Carver is known for his grounded…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/cathedral/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/cathedral/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exploring the Great Lake of Knowledge]]></title><description><![CDATA[Should we generalize or specialize? What if there was a sixth Great Lake? Beyond Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario, and Superior imagine you…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/generalist/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/generalist/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creative Distillation]]></title><description><![CDATA[“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.” — Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, 1657

Imag…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/creative-distillation/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/creative-distillation/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentration Muscles]]></title><description><![CDATA[If I wasn’t sweating, I wasn’t working hard. This perspective served me well in entry-level jobs that required physical exertion, like…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/concentration/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/concentration/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crawl, Walk, Run]]></title><description><![CDATA[Remember being a baby? Of course not! But let’s pretend we remember how it felt to drag our little bodies across the floor for the first…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/crawl/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/crawl/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Square Sees a Sphere]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have this strange little book on my shelf called Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott. It’s not a particularly good book…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/square-sees-sphere/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/square-sees-sphere/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tragic Sandwich]]></title><description><![CDATA[A customer wanders into a deli to order a sandwich. He’s hungry after a long and stressful morning and wants something easy for lunch…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/tragic-sandwich/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/tragic-sandwich/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked Problems]]></title><description><![CDATA[Let’s talk about wizards and muggles. And no, not the Dursley kind of muggle. Jazz musicians in the 1920s coined the term “muggle” to…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/wicked/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/wicked/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recursive Pareto]]></title><description><![CDATA[A rook, a bishop, and a pawn discovered a scroll. The pawn unrolled the parchment and read, “Buried treasure lies beneath the chessboard…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/recursive-pareto/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/recursive-pareto/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four Stages of Competence]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed. But I’m also not the dullest. I am merely as sharp or dull as the average tool in the shed. Over time…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/competence/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/competence/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wabi-Sabi]]></title><description><![CDATA[Picture a small clay bowl. It’s not quite a perfect circle. There’s a dimple on its rim and a chip on its side. This bowl is wabi-sabi (侘寂).…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/wabi-sabi/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/wabi-sabi/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseline vs. Target]]></title><description><![CDATA[How many words do you write each day? If you don’t have a clear and precise number, the answer is zero. To make progress on any metric, you…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/baseline/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/baseline/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Input vs. Output]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine a big, strange Dr. Seussian machine. You feed it groceries, and it spits out gold bars or useless goop. You don’t know how the…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/input/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/input/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cobra Effect]]></title><description><![CDATA[During the British rule of India, venomous cobras plagued Delhi. The government offered a bounty per dead cobra to reduce the snake…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/cobra/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/cobra/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogfooding]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dog food is a $56B industry, only $11B short of the $67B baby food industry. Given declining birth rates and an ever-growing preference for…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/dogfood/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/dogfood/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Localhost Trap]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the 2000 film How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Jim Carrey recited his to-do list, and one item was especially salient: “Solve world hunger…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/localhost/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/localhost/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vocal Minority vs. Mobile Minority]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two types of minority groups could drive majority change: one that exhibits perceived change and one that creates actual change. The Vocal…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/mobile-minority/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/mobile-minority/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Red Pill or Blue Pill]]></title><description><![CDATA[Near the beginning of The Matrix, the protagonist receives two pills. Either he can take the Blue Pill to expunge dangerous thoughts and…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/red-pill/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/red-pill/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[One-Way and Two-Way Doors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon popularized the idea of one-way and two-way doors to encourage employee decision-making and appropriate risk-taking. One-Way Doors…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/two-way-doors/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/two-way-doors/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[System I & System II]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here’s a puzzle: Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and bright. She majored in philosophy at an American university. As a student…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/system-ii/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/system-ii/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lindy Effect]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Older is better.” When I lived in California, I drove a 19-year-old truck with electrical issues. I took it to a few mechanics, but they…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/lindy/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/lindy/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Locksmith Paradox]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Faster value is perceived as worse.” I once slept in a Walmart parking lot in West Virginia. Late that night, I arose to use the restroom…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/locksmith/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/locksmith/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aesthetic-Usability Effect]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Beauty over function.” In 1995, researchers at the Hitachi Design Center studied the “aesthetic-usability effect” with an ATM. A less…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/aesthetic-usability/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/aesthetic-usability/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eudaimonia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Language constrains our range of expression. It isn’t easy to express a thought or a feeling with words when the language doesn’t have a…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/eudaimonia/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/eudaimonia/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Potemkin Village]]></title><description><![CDATA[To impress Empress Catherine II during her journey to Crimea in 1787, Grigory Potemkin supposedly built fake, portable villages along her…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/potemkin-village/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/potemkin-village/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tokyo Effect]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tokyo has ~14M people, making it the largest city on Earth. It has thousands of unique stores, like Ma-suya Azabu-Juban—a shop that only…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/tokyo/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/tokyo/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stonecutter vs. Mechanic]]></title><description><![CDATA[The other week, my friend and I went skiing on Mount Baker—a glaciated volcano near the Canadian border. We cruised along gravel roads until…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/stonecutter/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/stonecutter/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fragile, Resilient, Antifragile]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last month, the power went out at the gym. Lights went black, the treadmills stopped moving, and huge, medieval-looking doors slammed shut…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/antifragile/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/antifragile/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zone Two]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’ve been training for my first marathon for the last few months. I’ve never been much of a distance runner, so my running workouts were…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/zone-two/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/zone-two/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Magical Buckets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think about that scene from Fight Club when Tyler Durden (played by Brad Pitt) holds a gas station attendant at gunpoint and…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/magical-buckets/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/magical-buckets/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Slowest Hiker]]></title><description><![CDATA[I love the scenic beauty of Washington State—it’s the main reason I moved here. The problem is that everyone here loves the scenic beauty…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/slowest-hiker/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/slowest-hiker/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secondhand Smoke]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’m always amazed by how quickly a clever framing can sway public opinion. In the US, smoking went from a commonplace activity to a near…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/secondhand-smoke/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/secondhand-smoke/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravitational Pull]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine a group of people as a solar system. Be it a family, company, sports team, organization, church community, or a gaggle of friends…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/gravity/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/gravity/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eating the Frog]]></title><description><![CDATA[My cousins and I used to visit a place in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula called “Black Rocks”—cliffs beside the icy waters of Lake Superior. The…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/eat-the-frog/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/eat-the-frog/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Underpants Gnomes]]></title><description><![CDATA[On an infamous episode of South Park, the boys do a school presentation about “underpants gnomes”— little elves that sneak into a house and…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/underpants-gnomes/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/underpants-gnomes/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gray Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine time as black and white, where black is work time, and white is playtime. If our days were a chessboard of activity, we’d starkly…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/gray-time/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/gray-time/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chronos and Kairos]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Ancient Greeks had two concepts for time: Chronos and Kairos. Chronos is quantitative, purpose-driven, and marked by hours and minutes…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/kairos/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/kairos/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cliffhangers]]></title><description><![CDATA[King Shahryar’s wife cheated on him, so he beheaded her in rage. Her beheading wasn’t enough to assuage his anger, so he picked up a…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/cliffhanger/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/cliffhanger/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeignarik Effect]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the 1920s, Soviet psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik observed a waiter taking orders at a restaurant. When prompted, the waiter could easily…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/zeignarik/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/zeignarik/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warrior vs. Soldier vs. Police]]></title><description><![CDATA[A “marketer” in a year-old, ten-person tech startup will vastly differ from a “marketer” in a fifty-year-old, five-thousand-person Fortune…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/warrior-soldier-police/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/warrior-soldier-police/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maker vs. Manager vs. Minder]]></title><description><![CDATA[Investor Paul Graham once argued that a maker (such as a software engineer) requires long bouts of uninterrupted time to create valuable…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/maker-manager-minder/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/maker-manager-minder/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reader vs. Listener]]></title><description><![CDATA[To improve at anything, we must learn. To learn, we must know how we process information. In Managing Oneself, Peter Drucker claims that…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/reader-listener/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/reader-listener/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mind Mapping]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a visual artifact helps us understand a problem. A mind map is a tool I like for getting stuff out of my head. How to mind map: 1)…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/mindmap/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/mindmap/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What? Why? How?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Creativity is seen as messy, chaotic, squishy, and overly associated with art, so its practical benefits are lost. But creativity can use a…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/what-why-how/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/what-why-how/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faster Horses]]></title><description><![CDATA[People claim that if Henry Ford built what people asked for, we wouldn’t have cars; we’d have faster horses. This statement is more myth…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/faster-horses/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/faster-horses/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Red, Yellow, and Green Energy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine you could plug yourself into a power outlet and work all night. Like a computer, you could crank away around the clock at a steady…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/energy/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/energy/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appetite Planning]]></title><description><![CDATA[With resolutions, our eyes are often bigger than our stomachs. It’s easy to set big, hairy, audacious, pie-in-the-sky goals without the time…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/appetite/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/appetite/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Ritual of Retrospectives]]></title><description><![CDATA[New Year’s Resolutions are forward-looking—commitments we make (and likely don’t keep) with ourselves to create a future we’d like to…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/retrospective/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hedgehog & The Fox]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Fox knows many things, and the Hedgehog knows one big thing. Presented in a 1953 book of the same title, The Hedgehog and The Fox define…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/hedgehog-fox/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/hedgehog-fox/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Overton Window]]></title><description><![CDATA[What is tolerable to the public? What will 80% of people tolerate? The Overton Window defines the answer to these questions as it sets the…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/overton-window/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/overton-window/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Math]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’m forever surprised by the strength of imprints. Despite overwhelming evidence that says otherwise, sugary breakfast cereals never feel un…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/new-math/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/new-math/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astroturfing]]></title><description><![CDATA[An army of Twitter bots disguised as real people complain about cannibal rights. “The meatpacking industry is suppressing #CannibalRights!”…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/astroturf/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/astroturf/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poisoning the Well]]></title><description><![CDATA[A boss arranges one-on-one meetings with two underperforming employees: Becky and Bill. He plans to fire one of them. Boss: “Becky, why did…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/poison-the-well/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/poison-the-well/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gaslighting]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the 1944 film Gas Light, a husband turns on and off gaslights at night. When she brings it up in the morning, he tells her he didn’t…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/gaslight/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/gaslight/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jakob's Law & Decorum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jakob Nielsen had a simple principle in web design: People expect your site to work like all others. People spend 99% of their time on other…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/jakobs-law/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/jakobs-law/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[First, Do No Harm]]></title><description><![CDATA[George Washington was out late riding his horse, got caught in the rain, and developed a sore throat. The next day, his doctor came to heal…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/do-no-harm/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/do-no-harm/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unforced Errors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tennis players make two errors: Forced. The player errors because of their opponent, like not returning a powerful first serve. Unforced. T…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/unforced-errors/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/unforced-errors/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sorting Hat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some college friends were in town, so I joined them to watch Michigan clobber Iowa for the Big-Ten championship. Like most good friendships,…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/sorting-hat/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/sorting-hat/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Framestorming]]></title><description><![CDATA[You can’t help but wonder: Is this the right problem? Brainstorming is fine, but you might solve the wrong problem without the right frame.…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/framestorm/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/framestorm/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five Whys]]></title><description><![CDATA[You find out your team wants to deprecate a legacy codebase, but you don’t know why. So, you embrace your inner five-year-old and ask: “Why?…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/why/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/why/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[In What Context?]]></title><description><![CDATA[You pass an old mare at pasture as you approach the farmhouse-style tech office. You enter the office and head to the conference room. “We…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/context/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/context/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck Surface Area]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leprechauns Patricia and Patrick collect lucky objects, such as rabbit’s feet and four-leaf clovers. But their approaches are wildly…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/luck/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/luck/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whitespace]]></title><description><![CDATA[Writing is more than words. It’s how we present words.

Whitespace is a neglected element—not a passive background but an active ingredient…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/whitespace/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/whitespace/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mythical Mother Month]]></title><description><![CDATA[Clarence wants a baby. Clarence reasons that a baby requires nine months of effort, so rather than one woman spending nine months, he could…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/mythical-mother-month/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/mythical-mother-month/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheap, Fast, and Good]]></title><description><![CDATA[People want an excellent product delivered quickly for a low price. But it often becomes a “you pick two” scenario. If it’s good and fast…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/cheap/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/cheap/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alligators and Kittens]]></title><description><![CDATA[A sad woman in Louisiana loves kittens, as their little meows fill her with joy. So, she adopts a dozen kittens and brings them to her house…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/alligators-kittens/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/alligators-kittens/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be caught by the passive voice]]></title><description><![CDATA[Passive voice is objectively wrong in any writing—business, academic, or artistic. Edge cases exist, but the passive voice is often unclear,…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/passive/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/passive/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inversion is Not]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inversion is not thinking forward. It’s thinking backward. Inversion is not pursuing positive outcomes. It’s avoiding negative inputs.

Inver…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/inversion/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/inversion/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shaving Yaks]]></title><description><![CDATA[A man wants to buy bananas, but his car has a flat. He needs his air pump but remembers he lent it to his neighbor.

He can’t ask his…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/yak/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/yak/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four-Blade Razor]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Razors” are critical thinking tools designed to “shave away” complexity, and some are especially useful. Stay sharp with Turtle’s new four…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/razors/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/razors/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hairy Arms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Asha is a young marketer pushing the boundaries for extraterrestrial fashion. Little green people have immigrated to Earth, but humans…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/hairy-arms/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/hairy-arms/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cosmic Insignificance]]></title><description><![CDATA[I once set Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot” as my phone background because I thought the grainy photograph would put my problems into…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/insignificant/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/insignificant/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six Blind Folks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Six blind folks bump into a mysterious thing. Out of curiosity, they grope it. Person 1 feels its trunk: “It’s soft and long. It’s a snake!”…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/six-blind-folks/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/six-blind-folks/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperature Check]]></title><description><![CDATA[Weather is the universal small talk. Don’t let your struggles with temperature conversion force deeper conversation! Americans use…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/temperature/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/temperature/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware the Bike Shed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Engineers gather to discuss two designs: One for a nuclear reactor and one for a bike shed. The reactor discussion is smooth and short, as…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/bikeshed/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/bikeshed/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to hell is sloppily paved in adverbs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Words are alchemy. They transfer abstract thought from your head to another head and can change the material world. Clear writing makes that…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/adverbs/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/adverbs/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Color Coordination for Dummies]]></title><description><![CDATA[We’re all designers. Whether we create slide decks, flyers, or menus, it’s helpful to learn design basics—like color. When done right, color…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/color/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/color/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Asymmetric Crab]]></title><description><![CDATA[Too many Slack conversations start like this: 8:05 AM Pesty Coworker: Hi Justin

8:10 AM Pesty Coworker: How are you? 🙂

8:20 AM Pesty…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/asymmetric-crab/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/asymmetric-crab/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two Lists]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is part five of my “Draft One” series on writing the first draft of a novel. #5: Two Lists

One of my favorite Netflix originals is Aziz…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/two-lists/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/two-lists/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Shapes of Euchre]]></title><description><![CDATA[The other day, a friend and I taught Euchre to our partners. For those not familiar, Euchre is a popular card game in Michigan. Since my…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/shapes-of-euchre/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/shapes-of-euchre/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bones Before Flesh]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is part four of my “Draft One” series: Writing the first draft of a novel. Strategies (i.e., Go Big) set a direction. Tactics (i.e., Po…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/bones-before-flesh/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/bones-before-flesh/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Play Euchre]]></title><description><![CDATA[First, make a Euchre deck. From a standard pack of 52 playing cards, discard everything except 9s, 10s, jacks, queens, kings, and aces. Set…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/euchre/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/euchre/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't Miss Two]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is part three of my “Draft One” series: Writing the first draft of a novel. Let’s start with a dogsledding reference. My last two…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/dont-miss-two/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/dont-miss-two/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pomodoro]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is part two of my “Draft One” series. #2: Pomodoro

A Machiavellian businesswoman answers her own question: “How do you eat a whale? One…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/pomodoro/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/pomodoro/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Draft One]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exciting news! I finished the first draft of my novel. After a year of cycle time and six months of effort, a full draft is sitting on my…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/draft-one/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/draft-one/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doorstops]]></title><description><![CDATA[April 2021. Mount Hood, Oregon — A midnight alarm stirs me from my bunk at the Timberline Lodge. There’s a wall of snow outside the window…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/doorstops/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/doorstops/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[os28]]></title><description><![CDATA[I turned 28 last week. Late-twenties are an odd age—a major fork in life’s road. For some career-oriented urbanites, 30 is the new 20. For…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/os28/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/os28/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death of Default]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Palm Springs of Washington… While Miranda Cosgrove didn’t share this view, I appreciated the analogy…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/default/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/default/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven Plus or Minus Two]]></title><description><![CDATA[At work, I inherited this tool to help people use a poorly designed product. While the long-term solution was to address core issues in the…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/seven/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/seven/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[24-Hour Arcade]]></title><description><![CDATA[Time is the great equalizer. Everyone gets 24 hours per day, 365-366 days per year, 73.2 years in a lifetime. But how much of this time is…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/24/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/24/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honey, We Shrunk the Animals]]></title><description><![CDATA[The other day, I saw a bald eagle’s nest. Masterfully crafted in the tallest tree in a two-mile radius, it summoned images of leathery…]]></description><link>https://www.andersun.com/shrinkage/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.andersun.com/shrinkage/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>