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Every Day Is a Birthday
Live from Home Bar with Genesis, on a Friday evening in August.
I brought a poem this time. The last time we sat down together I got self-conscious ab…
10 hours ago
Why You Need to Hear from More Than Those Who Made It
Almost every piece of writing advice you have ever received came from a survivor. In 1943 a statistician looked at where returning bombers had been s…
1 day, 14 hours ago
The Detours Are Sacred: Chris Heuertz on Grief, Love, and the Myth of Arrival
If you’ve spent any real time with the Enneagram, you’ve probably felt Chris Heuertz’s influence whether you knew his name or not. Chris is the autho…
3 days, 12 hours ago
Why Everyone Else's Book Is Doing Better
You open the app and it seems like every writer you know is having a better year than you are. There’s a name for what’s happening in your head and i…
1 week, 1 day ago
Learn by Going
Everyone has a GO button. Mine was a drawer holding seven unpublished choose-your-path books I finally published under my own name. What happened aft…
1 week, 2 days ago
We Should Have Quit That Day
Last week I told you to stick with things. This week I want to tell you about the afternoon Daniel Kahneman sat in a room, was handed the exact infor…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Why We're Not Rational (And Never Were)
A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs a dollar more than the ball. How much is the ball? If you said ten cents, you're in good company, because …
3 weeks, 1 day ago
What Your Book Is Worth
The Anthropic settlement got final approval, Amazon raised its royalty ceiling for the first time since 2007, and the first half sales numbers say so…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Speaking into the Wilderness
I spent last week in a cabin outside Ellijay, Georgia, a couple of hours north of here. I’d thought about doing something more epic with my one week …
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Every Creative Block Is an Avoided Decision
There’s a decision you’ve not made for months. Maybe years.
You know what it is. You knew what it was the moment you read that first sentence, it surf…
1 month ago