I’ve been reading Hero on a Mission by Don Miller. In it, he discusses Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning. Frankl’s formula for experiencing a meaningful life has three main points: take action by creating a work or performing a deed; experience something or encounter someone that you find captivating and that pulls you out of yourself; and finally, have an optimistic attitude toward the inevitable challenges and suffering you will experience in life. And it got me thinking. How do you...

I can remember the recommendation. “Darin, don’t you know that if you print more of those brochures, you will save so much on the cost per print? Once that printer is running, it doesn’t cost that much more to print more.” Maybe you’ve been there. The printer or print rep is telling you about all the cost savings that come with making a larger print run. I can also remember my explanation. I appreciate the advice, but what I don’t want is a lot of wasted paper when we have to reprint these...

Recently, I’ve been reading the book Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunff. Let’s not discuss how long I’ve been reading this book. Please. Because I’ve been reading snippets for a while. But I also think the book would be okay with that. Tiny bites, tiny experiments, progress, even failure, but still moving forward. Not necessarily in big steps, but more likely, tiny ones. Anyway, I’ve been reading about generativity, which is defined as an unconscious desire to guide and assist the next...