botanical studies of internet magic
Episodes
24. underworld business practices
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
the vast majority of business advice has never worked for me, not because it was wrong, but because it didn't align with my energy, and the way I ...
23. i am an artist in the wild
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
who gives us the right to call ourselves "artists"? where do you source your sense of legitimacy and validity from? how do you face the voic...
22. spiraling into your changing center
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
one of the most significant shifts I've ever had is letting go of linear (ladder-like) models of external success -- in order to put my own journe...
21. doubt is my companion monster
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I've had a very long, tumultuous relationship with self-doubt -- as my number one enemy, a villianous monster, a generous teacher, a loyal friend,...
20. clarity is a bird I follow home
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
there is a difference between wanting clarity, and wanting permission. or certainty. or safety. clarity isn't something external that I wait to happen...
19. autumn itinerary for the unknown
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
hello there, after a summer. this episode is on why being with the unknown is at the heart and core of all imaginative, wilderness work -- through you...
18. digital silence as practice
29 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
this is about escaping the noise of platforms and constant connectivity. I reflect on why acclimating to digital silence can feel stark, lonely, and h...
17. transcendence of a productivity addict
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I spent many years needing to feel “productive” everyday — a word that was programmed into me, and which I clung to — but which felt wholly in...
16. digital presence is a place
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
hello again, after a few months break. during my retreat, I thought a lot about what being "present" online means. I'll propose that dig...
15. no fear of being seen
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
on untangling the fear of being seen -- and understanding where the desire to hide (in your creative work, life, or your digital expressions) comes fr...
14. making a home on the internet
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
inhabiting a home on the internet is really about making space to be yourself, in public. you resist the digital flattening of the self and, instead, ...
13. the anatomy of a digital world
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
this week, I’ll deconstruct and translate the concept of website as digital world into concrete design elements, and give you a poetic reframing of ...
12. your website is not a brochure
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
why your website doesn’t have to be a brochure that compartmentalizes your infinite self — into three glossy pages. I’ll put these two framework...
11. the joy of missing out on platforms
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
this episode is about my approach to cultivating a creative and business life outside of all social/content platforms (including Substack and Youtube)...
10. sharing your work as creative release
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
on a radically different way to relate to sharing your work on the internet — how to see sharing as a part of the creative process, not separate fro...
09. the internet as a creative practice
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
this week’s episode is about inhabiting yourself on the internet — by relating to it as a public vessel for your ongoing creative self. I’ll exp...
08. make art for no audience
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
this episode is all about deconstructing and letting go of the pressure to “build an audience.” I’ll disentangle the practice of being an artist...
07. the process is the way
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
this is my guiding principle 101: my devotion to process. I’ll unpack why I believe that process is the magic key to anything you want to create— ...
06. at home in the world as my artist self
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
this is my last chapter of sharing my wayfinding journey (for now) — in which I share how I stopped traveling, decided to make a home in Istanbul, a...
05. the wandering way of the artist hermit
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
this episode is about leaping into the void. then, living in the leaps. I share my story of leaving NYC, slow traveling the world during a pandemic, a...
04. how do I survive as a creative and not hate myself?
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
this week's chapter on my wayfinding journey is about my years of the creative hustle, in which I tortured myself with the question: “how do I s...
03. this is a one way road
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A very personal account of the extreme feelings that lead me to quit my full time / part time jobs, and commit to working for myself. This is a conti...
02. throwing away the iron rice bowl
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
the "Iron Rice Bowl" is a Chinese metaphor for job security and stability (aka, what we, as artists and entrepreneurs, didn’t exactly choo...
01. hello friend, welcome
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
an introduction; an opening of themes and unspooling of threads: 🌱 botanical -- plant life as a metaphor for creation 🪁 studies -- a way of cu...