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Tag: true for me

Original art by EM Matteson
Creativity

Here’s my story (and I’m not sticking to it)

I’ve been in between things for some time now. Like in my career. And it is glorious. I mean, literally glorious. Each day feels like an adventure, my…

October 22, 2025October 23, 2025 · 7 min read

HeartBreak Shield by EMWE Art Copyright Elizabeth Mullen Matteson
Creativity

self-censorship, free speech, and the powers of The People

What happens when the recently de-privileged1 try to recoup social power by authoritarianism, and what to do about it. No law can save you, if you don’t make…

April 25, 2025April 26, 2025 · 7 min read

abstract face with glasses
Coaching

Designer Questions to Engineer Endurance, Achievement, and Happiness

Focusing your attention on long-acting, feeling-based, style-specific questions can give you a richer and happier experience of life. What I love about this process is that anyone can…

March 11, 2025March 12, 2025 · 7 min read

Mommess

Lies the AI tells me

Interacting with AI feels disturbing to me. Oddly slick and beautiful fake humans with 7 fingers aside, I think it’s because there’s no way to prioritize truth-telling in…

March 4, 2025March 5, 2025 · 4 min read

Coaching

Truth telling in little bits

Focus, the folly of first-ness, and how symbolic truth-telling connects us to our souls and each other. If any one artist works with the truth of their lives,…

March 2, 2025March 3, 2025 · 4 min read

Coaching

Helping the Helpers: methodology and pitfalls

Like many people, I’ve wanted to make a huge positive impact, but unlike others, I haven’t wanted to be directly acknowledged for doing it, because I’m uncomfortable with…

March 2, 2025March 5, 2025 · 5 min read

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