What is this?
Welcome!
The Fire Jar is a multimedia playground with drawings, thought experiments, questions, and interactive prompts.
It covers topics like creativity, movement, and learning.
It's edited by Jeremy Finch
With many collaborators.
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Expect creative kindling.
In bite-sized, visual formats.
Nutritious food for thought.
For people who seek to move, create, reflect, slow down or try something new.
Why I make The Fire Jar
Motivations : I wanted a creative accountability mechanism. And I love making things.
It's been a fun way to get feedback, learn new skills, and make new friends.
Here's the origin story.
And my reflections, at 100 weeks.
First time visitor?
Invest in a self-care week.
Try a reflection / growth exercise.
Take a self-paced drawing course.
Other entry points :
Enjoy some animated beats.
Ponder a paradox.
Review the user manual for your brain.
Listen to a playlist (one / two).
Read my early parenting thoughts.
Look at woodcut prints or photos.
Learn how I design these graphics.
Two deep-dive TV reviews :
Battlestar Galactica / Enlightened
Three topics I'm passionate about :
- Learning and knowledge
- Bodies and movement
- Art and creativity
My three main interests :
Here are all the reader mailbags.
I appreciate the email reponses!
Core values
Design
Honor your time, trust, and brain-space.
Questions
Ask for feedback, regularly. Listen.
Balance
Mind-body, big-small, serious-silly etc.
Join 285+ readers :
A wonderful stimulant, challenging me to break out of routine thoughts, expectations, habits."
I think I need to start unsubscribing from more things so that TFJ can be a bigger percentage of my inbox."
A friend once told me:
The hardest part of any new project is getting started.
"You'll probably change the house you're building about a thousand times - just lay a few bricks down and see where it goes." pic.twitter.com/tbOTyAuPnf
