What’s a mistake, anyway?
Category: Making
This before that: How to prioritise
Priority is a singular word. By telling ourselves we’ve got more than one thing that’s important, we’re saying that nothing is.
Adaptive planning and progress
How can we take small steps towards bigger goals whilst ensuring we still see progress and pleasure if we don’t ever make it?
Who dies at deadlines?
Is the anxiety invoked by using the word ‘deadline’ really more useful than calling it what it is – a commitment?
Every culture has an alcohol
How is it that every culture independently invented their own alcohol?
Greens in regulation
What’s your ‘radius of OK’? How close do you need to get to perfection for it to be good enough?
The long way ’round
Do I work quickly and complete more projects? Or is it better to slow down and relish in the process, even if it means less output?
There’s no such thing as breakfast
Cultural norms and immutable laws are not the same things. Is our idea of breakfast holding us back?
Am I a writer yet?
What will it take for me to embrace (or feel like I’ve earned) a label like ‘writer’?
Clocking off
Clocks are great for getting to a train on time, but not so great for losing track of it, which is exactly what I need to make art.