Dispatch No. 1 - Launch Notes

01. Signal

Hello there! I'm Moira, and this is Mosaic Dispatch.

Consider this the first page of an open notebook. I'm building a business and a creative practice in real time, and each week I'll share what I'm learning: essays, tools, fragments, and the occasional pop culture spark.

Think of this as an invitation into the process—pages pulled straight from the work itself. My hope is that what you find here feels useful, surprising, and like a reminder that we're all figuring it out as we go.

Thanks for starting from the beginning with me.

- MG

02. Practice

“There are always good reasons not to continue. The desire to create must be greater than the fear of it.”

— Rick Rubin

"The artist is on a cosmic timeline," writes Rick Rubin. In The Creative Act, he frames creativity as both sacred and absurdly ordinary. Treat the work with reverence, sure—but don’t get stuck worshiping at the altar. The practice is showing up: sacred, unglamorous, repetitive. Rubin’s gospel is so simple it almost feels like a trick.

Ideas, meanwhile, aren’t ours to claim. They belong to the ether—passing through, listening for a signal, settling into whoever’s willing to commit.

Which is why I’ve been reminding myself: make it exist, then make it good. The muse doesn't arrive on invitation. She slips in the moment you crack the door—not because you called, but because you finally made room.

03. Tools

• Accessibility resource: Someone finally did the impossible—made WCAG guidelines readable for the rest of us. All 87 criteria explained in plain English for creatives who care about accessibility but don't want to decode technical manuals all day.
  👉 WCAG in Plain English
• Tool talk: ChatGPT became my biz-ops multiplier this summer. I’m team GPT-4 over GPT-5, which somehow feels slower and needs more hand-holding to stay focused. ChatGPT’s superpower is remembering your conversation history, while Claude has the memory of a goldfish and makes you re-explain your entire project every conversation. But—Claude’s command of language and writing is often more elegant, making it a strong complement for riffing.
  🧩 Use ChatGPT’s project folders to keep different workstreams (and their particular contexts) organized.

04. Fragments

Sharing a few songs that kept the momentum this week. If the riff ain't chewy, the synth don't pulse, or the hooks don't hit... WE DON'T WANT IT!

Aaaaaaand that's a wrap on the first Mosaic Dispatch! Thanks for being here, and I'll see you next week—same time, same place.