Kendrick Lamar's Keys of Creativity

Over the years, I’ve dug through interviews, documentaries, books, lyrics, behind-the-scenes footage…not just to admire Kendrick's work, but to decode it.

Can creativity be earned?

Creativity doesn’t come from waiting for inspiration. It comes from movement. Repetition. Iteration.

G.A.R.D.E.N. Framework

Your creative mind is a sacred garden. If you don’t tend it intentionally, weeds (distraction, noise, other people’s thoughts) will take over.

If it ain’t broke…fix it?

Change before you have to. Reinvent while you’re strong. Upgrade your systems before they fail you.

Your ideas are alive.

Your ideas are living, breathing forces waiting to break free. Each one fights for survival, growth, and ultimately, immortality.

Speaking the language of "art".

There’s a funny thing I noticed about creative people: we speak in code.

I noticed something about you…

These notes are proof that something deeper is happening creatively across age, discipline, and medium.

If you're looking for your voice, I found it hiding here.

I stopped looking outward. I turned inward. And I listened. That’s when I heard it loud clearly…

Notes on "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" for Product Managers

If you want to build a product that sticks like super glue in your customer’s brain, you have to master the art of habit.

Notes on "The Mom Test" by Rob Fitzpatrick (from a Product Manager’s Perspective)

I took notes on "The Mom Test" by Rob Fitzpatrick so you won’t have to…

The Opportunity Goldmine Framework

Unlock the secrets to product management success with the Opportunity Goldmine Framework—a powerful strategy to shift your focus from building features to solving real customer problems that drive massive value and impact. Learn how to uncover hidden opportunities, prioritize high-impact solutions, and align your team to create products that truly matter.

Your Most Powerful Secret Weapon is a Person, Not a Feature

By involving customers at every stage—from ideation to iteration—you ensure your product is driven by real insights and genuine needs, not just assumptions.

The Lean Learning Loop

Discover the Lean Learning Loop, a game-changing framework that flips traditional product development on its head by focusing on rapid experimentation, fast feedback, and evidence-based decisions to drive growth. Shift from delivering endless features to mastering what truly matters—learning fast and building products your customers can't live without.

Aligning Your Team and Crushing Your Product Goals

This is your no-nonsense guide to aligning product teams around clear, measurable goals that drive real impact. Ditch the top-down approach and learn how to build trust, set strategic objectives, and foster a culture of continuous feedback and collaboration to crush your business targets.

Uniting Your Power Players

Most companies fail at product development because their teams are trapped in silos, but The Collaborative Trio Model—bringing Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers together from day one—breaks down these barriers, aligns everyone around a shared vision, and drives powerful, outcome-driven results. Say goodbye to misalignment and mediocre products; it’s time to unite your power players and create something truly remarkable.

Impact Prioritization Matrix

Most organizations struggle with prioritization, often relying on gut feelings or the loudest voices in the room, leading to wasted time and resources on low-impact projects. The Impact Prioritization Matrix offers a clear framework to focus on high-impact, low-effort opportunities, aligning teams around meaningful outcomes rather than just checking off tasks.

SaaS Building Blocks Every PM Must Know (Part 3)

Product and feedback life-cycle.

SaaS Building Blocks Every PM Must Know (Part 2)

Secrets of key SaaS metrics and powerful acquisition and retention strategies. These tools will help you steer your product towards sustained success and scalable growth.

SaaS Building Blocks Every PM Must Know (Part 1)

Understanding what SaaS is, its key differences from traditional models, the various business models, and the essentials of subscription management and pricing strategies are your first steps toward SaaS mastery.

Be the person your dog thinks you are.

"Be the person your dog thinks you are." The purpose of this saying is to encourage you to be your best self. But this quote falls short of something greater.

Cracking the Code: RICE and MoSCoW

RICE and MoSCoW – Your Secret Weapons for Product Prioritization

Go deep.

Wrestle with the complexities and the things you don't understand.

Plant the tree.

Plant your tree today.

Stop Building Useless Features!

Most product managers are stuck in the endless cycle of shipping features that don’t move the needle because they’re focused on outputs instead of outcomes. This post reveals the brutal truth about what really drives product success and provides a step-by-step guide to becoming a true impact-driven product leader.

A world-changing formula.

Believe you can change your world.

I found Heaven on Earth

What does a utopian world look like to you?

Have you heard of this word before?

The word you probably never heard of yet it's found all around you.

From silence to liberation.

Acknowledgment holds the power of liberation.

Capturing life's energies.

Life will throw positive and negative energy along your journey; challenges, curve balls, opportunities, and luck. Capture this energy to propel you toward the person you desire to become.

Send this to every high school graduate.

This speech was so encouraging, that I believe it transcends the advice for a college student and can touch the lives of anyone who hears it.

Love and Creativity.

Embrace love. Let it fuel you to express yourself.

A message from the birthday boy.

20 pieces of advice I learned over the last decade.

New Year, Same Project?

Are you working on the same creative project you promised yourself you would complete last year?

Steal the way Creative Geniuses think.

You can hack your way to being “smart’ by stealing the way smart people think. 

Secret to winning a Nobel Prize.

Here’s a secret the world’s best scientists used to win a Nobel prize…and it has nothing to do with science. 

I went on a free vacation with this travel hack

Should you trust mass judgment?

Imagine a scenario where one hundred witnesses are asked to identify the robber out of several suspects in a police lineup. Do you think the case is closed if all one hundred of them pick the same suspect? If your answer is yes, you’d be wrong.

The Devil's Advocate

Cultivating a tendency to question reality from multiple perspectives is an essential part of fueling and fostering the creative impulse within us.

Creativity Connects Humanity

Creativity is one of the underlying forces throughout human history that separates our species from others.

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The genius behind Mona Lisa. Destination syndrome is real and I have the cure. Best TED Talk ever? Are you scared to mess up your art? A new way to teach kids. In the mind of John Cleese. Therapist's greatest competitor.

The Genius Behind Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa is legendary because Leonardo da Vinci combined his mastery of art and scientific genius to pioneer groundbreaking techniques to paint the earliest painting that comes as close to a photograph as possible—182 years before the camera was invented.

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Worst experiments the government performed on humans. Arguing against Neil deGrasse Tyson. The heart has a mind of its own. Why is art so expensive? Why is the symbol of love a heart?

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An artist's job is to describe feelings more accurately. The genius behind Basquiat. A quote about body goals. Simulation theory: It's to solve a future-human issue. You don't have as much brand loyalty as you thought. New World of Creatives logo reveal.

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A cure to indecisiveness. You have two lives and you didn't even know it.

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Don't aspire to get married. What works for others is nothing but noise.

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Digital art is now valued as traditional art. A poem to "art". How to convince yourself that you can do anything.

A Message to Art. A Message to Self.

This is a poem to art about loss and appreciation.

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This ad campaign caused a country-wide uproar. Infatuation vs Love. What does it mean to be an emotional person?

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Your favorite food probably tastes nasty. True love is unexplainable. Figure out how to handle your relationship problems. School isn't for education. A new definition of the word intelligence?

School Isn't For Education

You've been programmed to think that school is for education.

Your Favorite Food is Nasty

Do you ever wonder why some people enjoy food that you hate? It turns out that the deliciousness of food isn't solely based on the flavor of the food.

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Where does human attraction come from? Technological advancements are exciting. Why didn't Superman need a mask? Are humans the most intelligent species?

Opinion: Why Are We Attracted to Other People?

Is human attraction based on nurture/biology, chemical response, or social construct?

Octopuses Might be More Intelligent Than Humans

Collectively, humans are highly intelligent, but as individuals...I'm on the fence.

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My epiphany about real estate investing. Laying brings daily. Did Fungi make us self-aware? The history of the word "orange". A voice without words. Ideas should go through the test or opposition.

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Cavemen had it all. Never stop pursuing what you want. Why are so many scientists atheists? Why do people commit suicide? What's the source of your conspiracy theories? Make the most out of our human experience.

LOVE, DEATH, & LIFE

A short love letter for when you're anxious about the end of our lives.

The Pygmalion Effect

We rise or fall to the expectations placed upon us by the people we surround ourselves with.

Beyond Reality Experiences

Have you ever experienced something so magically novel that you couldn't even remember it?

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Have you ever had a beyond reality experience? Outsiders influence you to rise or fall.

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How do you choose your own reality? You're older than you thought. Did Pablo Picasso steal Cubism? Some black people are white-male supremacists. She is my world.

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What is life's only visual emotion? How do you choose your own reality using one word?

My Best Man Speech—Omar and Brittany Walker

My attempt and writing an epic Best Man speech for my brother's wedding.

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Are future humans going to save us? What’s heavier, life or death? Humans are in the midst of a massive war—and you probably haven't realized it.

The Afterlife—A Journal Entry From the Future

They look up at the stars, wondering about their place in the universe without recognizing that they are the universe. The supernatural they all admire is within all of them. All of us. Humanity.

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Everything is hard—choose your hard. The perspective of love from a serial killer. Is love within all of us already? The scariest experience of my life.

Love is Violent. Sex is Violent.

“Love is violence, sex is violence, every interaction is violent it’s just a matter of scale. How much of something do we want to feel? Does it feel good when your lover takes your hand when you didn’t expect it, does it feel better when he grabs your nipples, twists them..and on and on?”—Serial Killer, Paul Bateson

Documented Paranormal Activity—Halloween 2020

Based on a true story. It was a dark stormy night. Three nights before the night of the full moon. Halloween of 2020.

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What is the key to growing a YouTube channel?

What does it mean to be open-minded?

Perception is not reality, but since individual perceptions have a massive influence on the mind, your perception can become your reality.

Has Music Lost its Luster?

What started out as a debate about the generational difference in musical taste ended with me pondering how and why music has changed over time.

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Have you ever questioned "hope" before? My favorite quality of humanity.

Great Understanding = Great Love

Great love comes from a great understanding of the thing loved.

Christmas in July—By Dwayne Walker

Poem about a trip I went on in July...

Growing Up Outside of the Box

A story about why I dedicated my life to nurturing creativity in kids and teens.

Breaking Free From Mental Slavery

True freedom is freedom of the mind.

The Importance of Nurturing Creativity in Kids

Raising creative children means raising children that can express their emotions, act independently, figure out solutions to problems, interact in social situations, and think critically. 

Up&Apart—By Dwayne Walker

A poem from an over-thinker...

Tapping Into Your Public Speaking Potential

Embody your own voice. Share your ideas gift-wrapped in curiosity. Change the world one mind at a time.

#WeShareMusic—Curated Music Recommendations

The Tale of Two Freedoms

I finally understand a new angle of freedom in relationships.

Importance of Creativity in the Workplace

Creativity provides your business with an edge to stay ahead of the game in its industry.

The Ultimate Guide to Writing Stories

A good story doesn’t feel like an illusion. What it feels like is life. Literally.

We Are All Connected

7.5 billion people. Strip away the wealth, experiences, and material possessions and we are all simply human. We are one.

How to Achieve Anything You Put Your Mind To

Your consciousness inevitably attracts your circumstances, conditions, and material possessions.

How much does luck play into your success?

Here's the science behind why many billionaires attribute their success to luck.

This idea made me love myself more.

Weaknesses are simply strengths applied in the wrong areas. Embrace and redirect them for personal growth and success.

My (new) favorite question.

Constantly searching for reasons and explanations can trap us in a cycle of overthinking, inhibiting our growth. Do not ask "Why?". Ask "Why not?".

The experimentation game.

Experimentation has played a pivotal role in human progress throughout history, enabling both individual and collective improvement.

How do You Know You Found True Love?

True love is found in the unexplainable.

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What does it mean to be open-minded? Has music lost its luster?