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've always been an enthusiastic person. I like to jump from one project to the next (literally running, when possible) with my knobs turned to 11. I tend to do well
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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 people’s clothes have a way of riding up in unfortunate places, in a way that seems almost willful. It’s as if the clothes are sentient, and cloth and wearer are
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Sometimes people say goodnight by saying, see you in the morning, if that’s expected. This bugs me.[1] While I certainly hope to see them in the morning, and consider it highly
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When I was a boy, I had a ride-on lawnmower with no blades. I’d wanted a ride-on lawnmower for years, ever since my brothers and I found and restored-to-
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This morning I got stuck in the slow lane behind an old man when I was walking down the sidewalk on my way to a Zoom meeting at my neighbourhood coffee shop. Rather
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No matter our position or situation, life will throw challenges our way. These can either knock us off our stride and make us sulk, or be an opportunity to grow.
Depending on my
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