Larry June’s Slow Productivity - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
In August, a reporter from Rolling Stone sat down to interview the San Francisco-based rapper Larry June before he took the stage at Lollapalooza in Chicago. June is known for his status as an independent artist. After an early deal with Warner Brothers fizzled, June went on to produce and release almost all of his subsequent
TA #124: 🚂 The Little Metric that could; How to get Tom Hanks on your podcast
Hey, you. You're doing great. Click here to read this on the web. Source: Grosset & Dunlap Welcome to the 124th issue of Total Annarchy, a fortnightly…
The Notecard System: Capture, Organize, and Use Everything You Read, Watch, and Listen To
The Notecard System - the system used by some of today's and history's greatest artists. Ryan Holiday, Robert Greene, Erin Carr Lee, George Carlin & others all use(d) notecards to produce great work.
The Imperfectionist: Everyone is (still) winging it
Everyone is (still) winging it I don't have access to the traffic data, but I wouldn't be surprised if the single most-read thing I've ever written is still a blog post I ...
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, What a wild thing to watch Write of Passage grow. We started the year ...
On Michael Crichton’s Busy Ambition - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
By his last year at Harvard Medical School, Michael Crichton, 26-years old at the time, knew he didn't want to pursue a medical career, so he went to the dean with a proposition. He planned to write a nonfiction book about patient care, he explained, and wanted to know if he could use his final
In Praise of Idleness: Bertrand Russell on the Relationship Between Leisure and Social Justice
“Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.”
Professio sano in vitam sanam (on balancing work and life) - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
A reader recently pointed me toward a long and thoughtful reflection on academic life written by Stephen Stearns, the Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University. In a section titled "Learning Balance," he talks about his work habits in the early 1970s, when his first son was born. "I was