2024 Jan - Practice Courage

What is to Reasonable, if 2024’s New Year Resolution is to 2023’s? In the past 10 years, all that I think about for my New Year’s Resolutions is to do more stuff. Stuff that I don’t do and stuff that I don’t do enough. It’s all that I CAN think about because it is what drives change. The reason I don’t try to do less is because of the productivity trap. Read more...

2022 Dec - Becker

The most important part of the writing process involves quickwriting a first draft of ideas without editing, converting the ideas to index cards, organizing cards into piles, then assessing piles by putting into the front a card that summarizes most of the pile, or, failing that, separating disjointed ideas or adding fitting summarizing cards, and ordering the resultant internally consistent piles in arrangements that make sense. Pick one arrangement out of the several ways and just roll with it. Read more...