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Breaking Up with Productivity Advice

"Content is really just showing up every day and producing something valuable.”

The master storyteller on finding a voice, creative originality and why he has never suffered from writer’s block

Five ideas for getting unstuck

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

It may be that simple

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 - 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.

I was 19 years old when I purchased my first copy of Meditations. Here are 16 Stoic lessons I learned from over 100 readings of the classic.

​ ​ ​ 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 ...

Writing personal summaries of what I encounter turns raw info into knowledge

A thousand day challenge to read a short story, a poem, and an essay every night.

And pickling jalapeños


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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60% of new jobs haven't been created yet. We have no idea what they will be. What we do know is that they will be on the internet.

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

“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.”

“Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom…is…

writing tips

How I realized the market is always right, and I have no idea what I’m doing.

Can you?

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