Day 3: The 100-Day Project

I think everyone has felt like I’m feeling right now:

I've read so much good stuff about creativity and perception lately. I really, really want to tell y'all about it.

I just really, really, really don’t want to write. Like we've all felt, I'm guessing. We have a 100 reasons why: Too tired. (True.) Too busy. (True.) Moon in Capricorn. (Maybe true?)

Long live the 100 Day Project

Back in 2006, a Yale graphic design professor named Michael Bierut asked his students to practice one creative discipline for 100 days straight. Writing, design, photography -- it didn’t matter. Just pick one thing and do it every day.

It didn’t have to be perfect. It didn’t even have to be good. It just had to be done.

A few years later, Elle Luna and Lindsay Jean Thompson brought the project to Instagram, and it took off.

Here’s the idea: Do something for 100 days. That’s it.

This year, the 100 Day Project started on Sunday, Feb 22, 2026. I was introduced to it by my graphic designer friend Rebecca (Papielle on Instagram) a few years ago and had a failure to launch last year because I was trying to be ... Something. Funny. Inspirational. Helpful.

This year, I'm just trying to be. Show up, no matter what. The rule removes negotiation. You don't need to feel inspired, artistic, motivated or anything even resembling polished. The polish is what was holding me back. Now, I'm just trying to finish before my battery runs out.

Long Live Prompts

Prompts work the same way. They narrow the field, reduce decision fatigue, and they interrupt the spiral of “What should I make?”

Constraint is not the enemy of creativity; it’s often the doorway.

So here I am. Tired, but writing anyway on Day 3. I'm curious about what will happen on Day 4, and 42, and 97. Something good, I hope, but today, I don't care. I showed up. And that counts as a win.

Know how I feel?