Modular Happiness: One Connector, Infinite Creative Connections

“Someone once told me that I was 12 inside. The only thing 12-year-olds crave is more Lego. Lego is fun; it’s therapeutic. It’s a beautiful sensation when you click the pieces together.”
—James May

Creative people all share the same pain. We desperately want to follow ALL of our passions, but we’re told repeatedly that we can’t. “You’ll be a jack-of-all-trades,” they say. And they’re right…sort of.

Being multi-passionate is like trying to build a castle with random objects. Keys, cups, books, shoes — none of them go together. You can use duct tape, glue, and string to make it work, but it’s a mess.

Modular Happiness is a philosophy that takes the opposite approach:

1 Connector. Infinite Connections.

I wasn’t happy with being just a writer, or just an illustrator, or just a web developer, so I made a creative nucleus for myself — ONE idea, ONE company that the rest of my life could orbit around: “F the Lines.”

I used this one idea the way that Lego uses those little nibs to connect thousands of unique pieces. Suddenly, it wasn’t so hard to build a castle, because my creative passions were all connected.