Decide What To Be and Go Be It

I dabble in lots of projects… Music, travel, cooking, climbing, storytelling, writing and most recently filmmaking. None of which are my day job. And yet there have been numerous times when I’ve been introduced as ‘Miller – the musician’ or ‘Ryan – the social media guy,’ ‘the Firefly guy’ and most recently ‘the film maker.’…

Autumn in NY

My friend Tim just started his own blog and had a post that broke me out of writer’s block, so thanks for that. This past weekend was spent in the company of some truly great friends down in Ithaca in the middle of my favorite time of year. We filled it with great music, black…

The Storytelling Bug

A couple of months ago I wrote a post about some of the reasons why some of my projects (and maybe yours) don’t come to fruition – why they don’t ship. At that time, I was working on a new project, which has just launched. Several months ago I began working with Geoff Storm and…

A Commitment to Ship

I never use to be a list-maker but somewhere along the lines I started keeping track of things I needed to do during a given day. Not because I was forgetting things regularly but when you spend most of your time in front of a screen – one task flows right into another, and it’s…

My Dad’s Electric Bike

I need to start off by saying that my dad is one of most talented and creative people I know. From building boats (I’m currently in the middle of learning / building one myself) to houses, to furniture, he can pretty much engineer or reverse engineer anything. Most recently, he used a DIY kit to…