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A Grief Observed
A Grief Observed
The window to write this, I know, has passed. The subject has been exhausted, what happened has happened and we are here. The day after, I walked through a North Carolina airport in a determined daze—crying and deliberately looking any stranger who would let me, right in the eyes. I was manic and furious and the task felt aggressive. It felt like my right. More people than you would think met my sobbing gaze. Each time, I would look away first.
·feedbin.com·
A Grief Observed
Bo’s PM Return
Bo’s PM Return
“I've been thinking a lot about the term "calculated vulnerability". I've seen a lot of my peers write after the resolution of a something hard (overcoming an illness, shutting down a startup, IVF etc) after a happy ending, neatly packaging their vulnerability in a bow. But what if that happy ending doesn't come? Do you just stay in a purgatory? Do you just stay in silence? I've been wondering about what my "resolution" will be so I can start publishing again. This self-imposed hiatus is basically me waiting for a satisfactory resolution in order to start writing again.”
·feedbin.com·
Bo’s PM Return
Bluemont Park
Bluemont Park
“But if I have learned anything in the past year it is how to change, and if I can turn into a runner I must be able to turn into anything else.”
·newsletter.jmduke.com·
Bluemont Park
The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye
On September 12, as far as Facebook is concerned I won’t exist. Yesterday, I permanently deleted my Facebook account. I let go of 300,000 followers, 1200 friends and the blue seal of authenticity. …
·om.co·
The Long Goodbye
Patreon Acquires Memberful, An Interview with Patreon CEO Jack Conte and Memberful CEO Drew Strojny
Patreon Acquires Memberful, An Interview with Patreon CEO Jack Conte and Memberful CEO Drew Strojny
“From my perspective, this shift from “You’re buying stuff that’s already created” to “You’re funding the creation of ongoing content” has been a clear evolution in Memberful.” “Also, from a philosophical perspective, our number one core behavior — some companies have values, Patreon has behaviors, we like that word because it’s something you can do — is “Put creators first.””
·stratechery.com·
Patreon Acquires Memberful, An Interview with Patreon CEO Jack Conte and Memberful CEO Drew Strojny
Eugene Wei on Twitter
Eugene Wei on Twitter
One of my unpopular beliefs is that many meetings in companies should have more cc's, not fewer as is the common complaint everywhere I've been. We underestimate how much observational knowledge transfer occurs.
·mobile.twitter.com·
Eugene Wei on Twitter
Centrifuge
Centrifuge
kept the city in a hostile sepia the way the calendar rips itself away from your grasp.
·newsletter.jmduke.com·
Centrifuge
I’m 30
I’m 30
Every year, for the last twelve years, I’ve done a birthday post. These posts summarize what’s happened in my life over the last year, as well as my thoughts about the future. This year was a big one for me, more than just rolling into a new decade. I got married. I signed a book
·scotthyoung.com·
I’m 30
On Editing (Your Own) Fiction
On Editing (Your Own) Fiction
Over on Twitter, I saw this insightful observation: She is not wrong. There’s a lot of writing advice that focuses on, “shut off the inner critic, just write, you can fix it in editing&…
·naomikritzer.com·
On Editing (Your Own) Fiction
Be Kind
Be Kind
“And I remind myself to be kind and see the potential in people. Give them a break. Just like Kevin did for me.”
·briangilham.com·
Be Kind
iOS Resources
iOS Resources
“So, iOS nerds: People often ask me for the best resources to learn iOS development and my list is out of date and in need of a refresh. What links, videos, books, courses, apps, etc. do you send to people who want to learn how to write iOS apps?”
·mobile.twitter.com·
iOS Resources
The Heart of Becoming a Writer
The Heart of Becoming a Writer
“The heart of becoming a writer is to come into focus on oneself. To know — and usually it’s best not to know until after you’ve done it — what has finally become important to write about and what you can say that no one else particularly can say.”
·twitter.com·
The Heart of Becoming a Writer
A very simple rule
A very simple rule
“I have a very simple rule that serves me well: Don’t think too much about your life after dinnertime. Thinking too much at the end of the day is a recipe for despair. Everything looks better in the light of the morning. Cliché, maybe, but it works.”
·austinkleon.com·
A very simple rule
School and the seasons
School and the seasons
“I have lived for the last eight years in seasonless places, where things do not die, but revolve in a constant tropic sun. I had forgotten how the fall sharpens pencils, gray and colored ones”
·austinkleon.com·
School and the seasons
Learning how to learn again
Learning how to learn again
“What I love about my son’s drawings is that he does not really care about them once he’s finished them. To him, they are dead artifacts, a scrap of by-product from his learning process. (For me, they’re tiny masterpieces to hang on the fridge.)”
·austinkleon.com·
Learning how to learn again
burn burn burn
burn burn burn
“But I think that boredom was just the sort of “self-care” I needed. I don’t like that term for all the reasons others have pointed out, but also because I think that self-care sometimes involves doing things that don’t feel lovely or gentle. It involves doing the thing that will actually make it possible for you to do the things you like doing, to be the person you like being.”
·annehelen.substack.com·
burn burn burn
The Audacity of Copying Well
The Audacity of Copying Well
“The problem with focusing on features as a means of differentiation is that nothing happens in a vacuum: category-defining products by definition get a lot of the user experience right from the beginning, and the parts that aren’t perfect — like Facebook’s sharing settings or the iPhone’s icon-based UI — become the standard anyways simply because everyone gets used to them.”
·stratechery.com·
The Audacity of Copying Well
Thoughts on Self-help
Thoughts on Self-help
This week vlogger Leena Norms included Steal Like An Artist on her list of “Top 10 Self Help Books that ACTUALLY HELP.” I was especially taken with her thoughtful intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdyYF2vH8pA Steal Like An Artist was written and drawn at such a fast and furious pace that I don’t think I spent a lot of time thinking about
·austinkleon.com·
Thoughts on Self-help