I've been leaving tons of comments on Instagram lately. It's so much work. (By “tons”, I mean 90, every day. THAT'S A LOT. Yeah, I know.) “Michael, what on Earth would possess you to leave 90 comments on Instagram every day?” Answer: The fact that it's hard. (By the way, I haven't yet gotten up to 90.

We all tell stories. Stories about ourselves, and stories about each other. Those stories are not true or false. They're just stories. “WHAT??? Of course they can be true or false!” Sure, but that's not why you tell them. The only reason you tell a story is that it serves you to tell it. It's OK

When I started this mailing list, it was for people who wanted to get better at playing the piano 🎹. (It wasn't even a cult back then.) Since then, it has changed into something different. Something broader than that. Lots of people have left, probably because they were expecting me to continue writing about piano forever 🙄. But the

I've got a video for you. It's about guilt. I know you feel guilt. We all do. We're taught to feel it. We're taught to hate ourselves when there's a chance we might be doing something wrong. What are you going to do about that? Do you enjoy hating yourself? The problem isn't the feeling