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Pacman & Spirit
Made two quick songs yesterday 👇
Zack Newbauer
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Designing a Therapy Website That Feels Like You
When Logan Miles—a therapist in Tennessee—approached me about creating her website, she knew what many therapists know deep down: it was...
Zack Newbauer
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snow kid legend boy
snow kid legend boy the knot that pains for days isn’t from him only Also my dad when he went gone and back and gave up After...
Zack Newbauer
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On being discouraged
After landing in San Francisco, I picked up a consulting gig that quickly became emotionally loaded. In this post, I reflect on a tense exchange with the CEO, the pressure to soothe frustration, and the quiet clarity that sometimes, the bravest move is letting go.
Zack Newbauer
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Bedroom Design: SF Summer Sublet
After 200+ days on the road, I’ve landed—SF is home for now. One block from Dolores Park, I couldn’t help myself: incense, a $60 West Elm rug, dresser rearranged. Maybe it’s my Taurus Moon, but creating space is a flow state I love—both during and after.
Zack Newbauer
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I didn't know: Chapter 1
Once when I said—as I have been known to do—that a fun game we could play sometime would be performing small acting lines for each other...
Zack Newbauer
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Bedroom Design: Cavern Clay
Had the idea of a terracotta + ceiling painted cave like bedroom and without a whole lot of thought jumped into repainting my bedroom...
Zack Newbauer
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Trip tracking with Polarsteps
My friend Ivy shared with me an app that helps track trips. I think it would work well for a trip to a single destination (since you...
Zack Newbauer
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Driving Playlist: to Mount Shasta
I looked for places I could stop between San Francisco and Bend, needing to arrive by Wednesday for Thanksgiving. Mount Shasta came up, I...
Zack Newbauer
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Driving Playlist: 🍀 to Bend & Seattle
Driving from Seattle to Bend and then to Seattle ( Travel Log ), finding myself in this familiar place—alone on the road, looking out...
Zack Newbauer
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Asking AI: Are we actually forced to do anything?
In my most recently blog post, I suggested that we have stressers of two variations 1) that we adopt and 2) that we are forced to hold....
Zack Newbauer
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Dancing with AI
While releasing the career I had been cultivating for 10 years in B2B SaaS, I now find myself in a daily exploration of intuition. One...
Zack Newbauer
7 min read


Using Apple Passwords: Why and How
I don't think I would have prioritized this personally, but having worked for a tech company, we had to use a password manager...
Zack Newbauer
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Playlist for a sick friend
My friend canceled on me because they're sick. There was a minute and 40 second audio note that really proved it. Collected a few songs...
Zack Newbauer
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Moss
Joined a writing workshop where we did 5 free-writing exercises. Moss You're like moss. Slow, intricate, and important in ways I might...
Zack Newbauer
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N Maple Design
I moved from Seattle to Cookeville, TN for what essentially became the pandemic years. In a small town, and supported by great interests...
Zack Newbauer
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Gentle my guy
You’ve been looking for god I will do my part To love you You see all the hoping To be worth it And as we pick up That shoulder plate And...
Zack Newbauer
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Francesco Alberoni
I came across an excerpt from Francesco Alberoni in Richard Schwartz's You Are the One You've Been Waiting For where he quotes Francesco...
Zack Newbauer
5 min read


Dancing with Developmental Stages
In my personal journey, I've come to recognize certain hurdles that might align with how I experienced certain developmental stages back...
Zack Newbauer
7 min read


Move to this
Press play: dance
Zack Newbauer
1 min read

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