Excellent (2010) piece by Michael Lopp on writing a book on the side: „Writing is a game of inches. No author I know sits down every morning in their home office and steadily produces three pages a day. I’m sure they’re out there, but these annoyingly efficient and profitable authors aren’t doing this on the… Continue reading Writing a Book on the Side
Author: Fabian
More browser, less Facebook
Jason Kottke links to a worthwhile piece on Mashable (of all things). If you want to make the internet better in 2018, it states, stop getting your stories on Facebook and start to…: Use your browser bar.* [*Or bookmarked websites.] That’s it. Literally, all you need to do: Type in web addresses. Use autofill! Or… Continue reading More browser, less Facebook
Input ↔ Output
“Be dilettante in your inputs but focused in your output.” – Taylor Pearson
The Problem with Storms is that We Need Them
Walter Isaacson on Walker Percy’s Theory of Hurricanes: “Why is a man apt to feel bad in a good environment, say suburban Short Hills, N.J., on an ordinary Wednesday afternoon?” Percy wrote in one of his essays. “Why is the same man apt to feel good in a very bad environment, say an old hotel… Continue reading The Problem with Storms is that We Need Them
Work as Procrastination
We can define all kinds of things as procrastination: Surfing the web, walking the dog, doing the dishes. How about work? Seldom do we see work as procrastination. But isn’t work often a form of procrastination, preventing us from doing what we actually should be doing? A few things come to mind, in escalating order:… Continue reading Work as Procrastination