The Everything List

Last week, I was driving home when it came to me. ’The Everything List’.

If there's one thing you should know about me, it's that I love driving. When I bought my first car back in 2021, I put 80,000 kilometers on it in a single year. I can't get enough. It's my happy place. The one space where I'm forced to sit back, let go, and let my mind do what it wants. Some of my best ideas are formed somewhere between home and wherever I'm headed.

Here's the second thing you should probably know: my brain never stops wandering. I'm constantly brainstorming projects I would love to work on. Most of them are triggered by problems I encounter in the world. Things that feel broken. Things that could be better.

That's how Monday Workday started. I was looking for a job and got tired of digging through piles of boring postings just to find one that actually excited me. So I built my own. I knew what agencies designers like me got excited about, so I started tracking them and reporting back to a small community. Frustration turned into something real.

The phone idea I mentioned last week? Same pattern. Something felt off. My brain couldn't let it go. And suddenly there's a project living in my head rent free, waiting for permission to exist.

But here's what I've come to realize.

So much of this stays inside. And I want it out.

In my first note, I wrote about sharing as an invitation. About believing we're capable of doing great things together. ’The Everything List’ is the next step of that. If I'm serious about inviting people in, I have to actually show them what's in here.

The problem, at least how I describe it for now, is that I get excited about too many things.

I would love to start making knives. I would love to design the phone's successor, a device that serves us and then steps back. I would love to design an album artwork for musician.

I would love to support the creative department of a blockbuster movie, building props that feel like they belong in another world. I would love to sit in a room at YouTube, LoveFrom, Anthropic, or The Browser Company.

And then there's the part I don't usually admit.

I measure myself against people like Jony Ive. Like Daniel Ek. Not people who used the platforms well, but people who built them. People who changed how the rest of us live.

For a while, that comparison paralyzed me. I spent months in an existential fog, not knowing what to do with my life. Whether any of it mattered. Whether I was allowed to want what I wanted.

And what came out the other side wasn't a grand plan.

It was something quieter.

I want to leave this world a little better than I found it.

That's it. That's the filter now.

’The Everything List’ is my attempt to live that out. A backlog of everything I'm excited about. Projects I'm working on. Projects still at rough draft stage. Projects I tried and failed at. Ideas that just crossed my mind and felt worth keeping. Things I believe could make this place a little better.

The goal is to invite you in. To show you what lives in my head. And if something catches your eye, I want to hear from you.

Because the truth is, I need help.

I've never built a phone. I've never built a animatronic. I've never designed a knife, or a MagSafe display dock, or a camera that works like a disposable one.

These things will stay ideas forever unless I find people who want to build them with me.

I genuinely believe we're capable of doing great things together.

But it starts with opening the door.