A reader read a draft of my essay on measuring early stage progress, and said, that’s cute, but a more interesting question is what we should be compounding in the first place.
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At the risk of stating the obvious: always working on your #1 priority doesn’t work.
I have learned this the hard way. (Most recently, when I tried David Gauer’s cool sticky
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Some time ago I drafted an essay on cutting words from essays, intended for a cheesy writing contest, and never submitted it. I was thinking about this essay, languishing on my hard drive,
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I drink caffeine. Like, a lot of caffeine. I have for a long time. Every once in a while I go on a ten-day caffeine fast to prune back my adenosine receptors,
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Although I’m a semi-professional musician, most days, I listen to far less music than my friends. I generally work in silence, cook in silence, run in silence. When I do listen
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[ In Iteration, I wrote about the mistake of demanding painting lessons from van Gogh. This essay tugs upon on the same thread. ]
There's an old saying that in order to teach
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Some moments are intensely vivid and pleasant. Other moments are intensely and vividly unpleasant, or, more commonly, unmemorable and weakly depressing for no reason. The types of experience can be separated, on lucky
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