Memberships and Communities are a great way to stop selling hours for dollars. But you need to do it right.  I recently sat down with my good friend Becky Pierson Davidson to talk about why so many communities fail and how she helps solopreneurs…

I picked up reMarkable 2 to see how I liked typing on an eInk device. I share some initial impressions, but am facing a bigger, more interesting problem: how to I make it play nicely within my current writing ecosystem? Get all of the…

What do Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Marie Curie, Ben Franklin, and Virginia Woolf all have in common? They all created long-lasting, humanity-impacting work…without the use of AI. See, there are lots of people who will tell you that you need to use AI or get left…

It’s the end of January and my Year of Digital Detox is in full swing. Here’s how I’m doing with it so far.  Read about The Year of Digital Detox: https://casabona.org/2026/01/2026-yearly-theme-digital-detox/ Subscribe to Paper & Smoke: https://paperandsmoke.com Submit feedback: https://streamlinedfeedback.com ★ Support this podcast…

I was recently trying to do something that should have been simple: sharing my work calendar with my wife so she knows when I’m actually free for family time. I found myself digging through “secret” settings pages, checking her phone, then mine, and getting…

I’m deeply worried about humanity losing our critical thinking skills. We’ve seen it degrade in the social media era, and now we’re seeing people wholesale outsource it in the AI era.  But what if we can actually enhance our critical thinking with AI? I’m…

“What’s your exit strategy?” Someone actually asked me this when I was starting my business. I didn’t have one. I’m not in it for the exit.  But the question went to something deeper: how are you going to make actual money? Because the problem…

I am no Luddite. I have three pieces of technology that monitor my health and wellness. I’ve come to rely on many devices. That is why I am doing a digital detox. This is Paper and Smoke. It’s a look at how real-world craft…

There comes a time in everyone’s life when they’ve consumed too much of something, and they find the very notion of consuming more sickening. This is the very basis for my yearly theme. 2025 was finally the year were I felt my overconsumption of…

We’re almost at the end of Christmas break and I decided to record a quick update on how it’s going…plus test my new camera. Check out the (somewhat unflattering) video here: https://youtu.be/HvSTnzOP01g Get your free Time and Tools Self-Audit at  https://streamlined.fm/impact ★ Support this…