I do not remember the source of this story.
A middle-aged woman, distraught, goes to the…
In case you run out of time to read this blog, a writer for the Guardian pretty much summed up everything I’ve said or am going to say for the forseeable future:
Spoiler alert: here are the secrets.
I am not a tremendously logical man. I wish I was; it’s probably part of why statistics thrill me so much. It’s taken me a while, but there was always something about the whole If you follow your passion, you’re very unlikely to be happy or…
Recently I read an excellent article about the author Ursula K. Leguin. She spoke of “five principal elements,” which must “work in one insoluble unitary movement” in order to produce great writing.
My partner made a joke about me recently, pointing out how some of the ways you write the letter “G” could look like a circular arrow. We decided if I was an old-school rancher, my brand would have been “The Confused…
Any technique will work, so long as you relentlessly work it. It’s a numbers game. That is, success is a pure function of the law of large numbers. — Nick Murray
‘The key to strategy… is not to choose a path to victory, but to choose so that all paths lead to a victory.’
— Cavilo, The Vor Game
I hate writing.
