Projects
Things I run, publish, build, or have built.
Current Projects
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MKEstuff
A searchable guide to Milwaukee city services, local places, and practical everyday answers.
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MKE Meetups
A human-curated guide to recurring in-person groups around Milwaukee.
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Truly Simple Tools
A family of focused macOS, iOS, and web tools that each do one thing well.
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Let’s Know Things
A calm weekly news-analysis podcast for people who want more context.
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Brain Lenses
Short pieces about the biases, illusions, and habits that shape perception.
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Aspiring Generalist
A curated and annotated collection of links to interesting things.
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Colin’s Newsletter
Essays about life, personal growth, travel, and making things.
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Content Layer
Essays about content strategy, language, systems, and useful communication.
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Roll for Table
A tabletop reservation and campaign tool for hosts and players.
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Exile Lifestyle
Essays about travel, personal growth, entrepreneurship, and living differently.
Project Archive
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One Sentence News
Weekday email and podcast: three news stories, one sentence each.
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I Will Read To You
A public-domain poetry podcast.
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Understandary
The umbrella brand I created for my independent publications and podcasts.
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Asymmetrical Press
An independent publishing company I co-founded.
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Ebookling
An early publishing platform I built to help independent creators sell digital work.
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Go Bag
A travel-focused television concept.
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Way Below Status Quo
An online creator-focused road trip and event series.
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I Have No Shirt
An independent T-shirt company.
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Colin Is My Name
A branding studio I ran in Los Angeles (and into my early travel years).
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2 and 2 is 5
My first business: a design and web-development studio I founded at nineteen.
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Stim Magazine
A pocket-sized culture magazine I made while in school.
Keen to peruse more work? Browse my books, or see everything on one timeline.