The Weekly - October 25th, 2026

The Daily (Recap)

• Quirks
• Trends
• Essential or Familiar
• Nothing is under control
• If It Don't Scare You
• Execution
• Solution Seller

The Week

Wins - 7 days of consecutive writing, a healthy family, and wonderful fall weather here in Nashville, Tn.

Lessons - Sleep regression can happen at 6 years old, like it did at 6 months old (Louella has been coming up, getting in our bed, sleeping sideways and kicking my head this week.)

Updates

• Handwriting Forever, Chels & I's new custom handwriting archive and font tool is about ready to launch.
• Done with You MGMT has grown to over 25 artists in 33 weeks with 33 straight group Saturday Sessions.
• I ate tacos twice this week. I went to an art show. I wrote two songs. I went to a concert, and a dinner party.
• New Translations (a band I manage) were added to 2 MTV video playlists that reach over 80 million monthly viewers, and also picked up 3 Amazon Music playlists for their single, "Wait."
• Jaren Johnston released his new single, "Call me When Ya Don't."

What I'm Reading

This Is Marketing - Seth Godin

I've read this before, and it is even better the second time around.

Seth's ability to distill complex processes into easy to understand pieces is unmatched.

One Idea

"You don't have to. You get to."