Blog
Everything I've written, newest first.
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On the discipline of slow mornings
Most productivity advice treats the morning as a machine to optimize. I've started treating mine as a room to sit in instead.
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What I learned from keeping a commonplace book
A year of copying down other people's sentences taught me more about my own voice than any amount of original writing did.
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The neighborhood I didn't know I was watching
Notes from a year of walking the same three streets, and what changed once I started paying attention.
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A short defense of writing things down badly first
The first draft doesn't need to be good. It needs to exist so the second one has something to argue with.
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On rereading books instead of collecting new ones
I used to measure a reading year by how many books I finished. Now I measure it by how many I return to.