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“The detritus of our validation-seeking”

Tara McMullin’s post on overcommitting and the validation spiral was exactly what I needed to read today. She makes wonderful use of simple diagrams to show how we begin to overcommit, and then we don’t have enough resources to fully meet our existing commitments (disappointing ourselves and others)

Remember when “habits” were bad?

My first habit tracker app was called HabitBull and I think it was on my very first smartphone. It had a grid of habits, and you could select how often you intended to do them. It didn’t have to be daily, it could be three times a week, or

Duly Noted by Jorge Arango

I recently finished Duly Noted: Extend Your Mind Through Connected Notes, by Jorge Arango, an experienced information architect. (I spent most of the book drooling over Arango’s information processing approach, which uses several Mac-only tools, like DEVONthink and Tinderbox. Will my next computer be a Mac?) In some ways,

Exercise: My creative practice will be / won’t be

Trying out an exercise I designed to help get to know your creative practice and understand what challenges might exist and what can change to help work around those challenges. Initial inspiration for this exercise was drawn from an exercise in Abby Covert’s book, How to Make Sense of

It wasn’t writer’s block. I needed a new format.

I’ve just spent the last half hour searching around for the right way to go about a book idea I have. Was I wasting this time? Or was it a real investment, the way a comfortable office chair is an investment? Tools for writing, and thinking carefully about my

Learning to Exist in Public

My public existence was not an equation to be solved to other people’s liking.

Maybe online writing is like squirreling away acorns

"Practice telling and retelling your story. Over time, it will clarify."