Wayfinding

I write about finding your own way in life.

Today, there's always someone out there telling you where to go, how to get there, and what it'll be like when you do. There's a map for every mission.

But life isn't a mission. It's not a task to be completed, an objective to be reached. It's an adventure. And it's your own. Don't let someone else make a mission out of your own adventure.

Anyone can follow a map. But few dare to be the map-makers of their own lives.

I want to inspire you to have the courage to go your own way. Because without it, you won't miss the opportunity of your life. You'll miss that opportunity that is your life.

And I don't want you to miss it.

All the rest,

— David Kennedy

30 Jul

The Next Mountain Starts Downhill

A short meditation on our tendency as artists to cannibalize our own best work.

16 Mar

What is Wayfinding?

What is wayfinding? It's what we used to do before anyone had all the answers. When maps were at best a good start on a journey that was otherwise yours.

13 Jan

You Can’t See Under the Hood While You’re Driving

A short meditation on our tendency as artists to cannibalize our own best work.

08 Jan

The Parts Don’t Tell the Whole Story

Sometimes what we tend to think of as linear processes may be better understood as non-linear, interconnected, and intricately responsive wholes (or gestalten).

06 Jan

On Making Impressions

Art is all about impressions. Just because you want something to feel a certain way doesn’t mean it has to be that way.

05 Jan

I think as a writer there is a lasting tension between the things you want to be on the record for as having said, and the things that might better reach your readers because they are said differently.

11 Nov

11 Nov. 2025

In regard to taking a chance on ourselves, most of our fears essentially boil down to being afraid of failing in public. And there is some validity here. I don't think we should do away with this fear entirely, pretending for even a moment that we could.

31 Aug

See For Yourself

What does adventure look like in a world that has largely been explored? Today, when we have questions, it’s because we don’t know; in the past, because no one knew. That’s a very different world. And today I ask…is the world really at our fingertips if everything is already in arm’s reach? It may be...

27 Jun

Death by Proxy

I want you to answer this question honestly: What’s the weather like today? Being the year 2025, there’s a chance you reached for your phone just now. That was me the other day. Standing in my living room just 2 steps from the door, wondering what the weather was like outside. But I didn’t open...

24 Apr

Another Look at Imagination

I think that in many ways “talent” is an adolescent idea that we unknowingly carry with us into adulthood, failing to question its worth or validity ever again.