The Art of Correspondence
In college my grandmother and I exchanged at least one letter a month. I’d share about what I was studying or my friends, and she’d tell me about her life and ideas, and we got…
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tasshin can read as a treat
or, the subtle and mysterious art of consistently finding and immediately reading the exact-perfect-for-U-right-now book
The Syntopicon Anti-Book Club
We’re launching an Anti-Book Club on Mortimer Adler’s Syntopicon!
On Integrity
I take integrity very seriously. This is partly as a practical matter for collaboration, and partly as a spiritual practice.
Forming a Publishing Cooperative: A Playbook for Increasing Content Throughput
I know many people who wish they were writing more, or putting out content of different kinds more frequently as a way to further their career, make connections, or serve the world. I believe the ideas that I share here could help you have a larger, deeper impact through your creative work.
Peacetime Productivity, Wartime Productivity
Productivity should adopt an idea from military and business strategy: the distinction between peacetime and wartime.
Behind the Scenes of the Digital Productivity Coach
James and I wanted to build a better map of the productivity territory, and ultimately, to build a tool that interactively teaches people productivity.
Overlearning with Research Papers and the Principles of Knowledge Work
I recently set the goal to read research abstracts from 50 scientific papers. I want to get in the habit of looking for and skimming research papers in topic areas I’m interested in.
Plan Your Day: Daily Time Management with Emacs, Org-Mode, and Google Calendar
In this post, I show how I adapt the workflow from James Stuber’s excellent article Daily Time Management with Todoist and Google Calendar to use with Emacs and Org-Mode.
Retrospective on A 12 Week Year
“The 12 Week Year” argues that a calendar year — a 365 day time span — is too long a period to effectively plan and execute on your goals. Instead, you should do that process on a quarterly basis.