This weekend marked an enormous milestone for me: I completed the first working draft of my novel. I did not celebrate. In fact, I cried. Here’s why. I’ve been working on this story for a year now and finished the first structural draft last fall. It had a different working title ...
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“Be kind. Every one is fighting a battle you know nothing about.” (quote source, a matter of debate) If I could use the analogy of a coin for the 365 days that just passed, I’d say 2014 and 2015 are exactly opposite sides of that coin. The situations on the list would run off ...
The Power of No: Setting Personal and Work Boundaries for Greater Productivity and Integrity
Why can’t people get work done at work? It was the premise of a very good talk by Inc. columnist and 37signals co-founder Jason Fried at TEDxMidwest. He articulated the need of “creatives” – designers, programmers, writers, engineers, etc- to have long periods of uninterrupted time to get ...
I don’t really understand why my electrician needs to be on Twitter. He’s on call 18 hours a day, has a family, and more work than he knows what to do with. But when he was here to fix some wires the other day, he heard what I did for a living and said, “Oh yeah, I need to get ...