Episodi

  • Consistent Inconsistency

    Consistent Inconsistency
    Oct 27 2026

    What is up, citizen. Understory Bard here, Wade Skalsky. The productivity crowd says do the same thing every day or you'll never get momentum. Writers on a six-day schedule, lawyers grinding four to six billable hours a day, all year. For a Type A brain that sameness is a warm blanket. For mine it never worked. My brain runs in waves. Up, down, resting, rabbit holes. And when I'm down a rabbit hole I'll put my focus up against anyone's.

    So the key isn't consistency. It's being consistent in your inconsistency. Pick a few high-leverage projects. Don't chase every dopamine hit (calligraphy one week, a pottery wheel in the garage the next), because that hit is not proof you're on the right track. Then keep making forward progress across all of them, at whatever pace you can.

    My proof: Father Mike Schmitz's Bible in a Year. I listened on dog walks, ten minutes here, a whole episode there, weeks off. Two and a half years later I'm on day 350-something with a stack of notes. Doing it at any pace beats doing nothing, every time. Now it's the rosary. Swap in your book or your business.

    Work the whole garden a little and by the end of the season you've got a garden. It's a risk, and it means not running your life according to Hoyle. But it's a strategy. From the garage bunker, talk soon.
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    16 min
  • The Creative Peril Podcast

    The Creative Peril Podcast
    Sep 11 2026
    What is up—Understory Bard here, Wade Skalsky. This is the Creative Peril Podcast, a rebrand of the show I've already been making for hundreds of episodes, because creativity isn't start-stop-new-thing; it's staying in process and evolving what came before. Creative brains work differently—people call it neurodivergence now; I just call it creative. That difference isn't a curse to mask with distraction. It's a gift in an information economy where you can produce and distribute from a garage bunker without a line of gatekeepers. Production glitches included. My aim here is simple: share what I've learned the hard way, plus conversations with people who've figured out how to thrive, so you can spend more time in your zone of genius—going into the understory for ideas and bringing them back. Beauty still matters. Process still matters. If you're listening, I believe in your ability to create. Welcome.
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    10 min
  • A Creative Present But A Real Future

    A Creative Present But A Real Future
    Sep 14 2026
    15 min
  • How To Pick

    How To Pick
    Sep 15 2026
    What is up—Understory Bard here, Wade Skalsky. On Creative Peril this week: how to pick—not a spouse, not stocks, not a horse—your creative thing, when you're a polymath who longs to do comedy, guitar, novels, and Cirque du Soleil the second you see someone crush it. If you never commit, it's always beginnings—like dating forever and bailing when the middle gets dicey. Hollywood dabblers were fascinating at cocktail parties and broke, with nothing finished. The fix: look at what you've actually taken action on (lessons, drafts, haikus), then ask what still calls when you're alone—no concert dopamine, no social media, just silence (Depeche Mode optional, sung to yourself). Risk the "calling of one": craft for you even if nobody else gets the four-levels-deep joke. Two tests over time: does the work not hang as an albatross (my commercial first draft had a "thank God I can fly a helicopter" line—awful), and when you see a master, do you feel appreciation instead of "I wish I could do that"? That's the creative clearing—confidence, clarity, your medium. From the garage bunker—talk soon.
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    14 min
  • Mistakes Are A Certainty

    Mistakes Are A Certainty
    Sep 16 2026
    12 min
  • Make It A Thing

    Make It A Thing
    Sep 17 2026
    13 min
  • Patience Is A Requirement

    Patience Is A Requirement
    Sep 18 2026
    11 min
  • Interview With Enguerrand VII de Coucy X Personality And Master Of His Donjon

    Interview With Enguerrand VII de Coucy X Personality And Master Of His Donjon
    Jun 27 2025

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    45 min