A profession as bad off as academia: Protestant clergy
At least that’s the impression I get from this Atlantic piece by David Wheeler, which describes issues facing new clergy that would sound very familiar at the AHA:
“I won’t talk or deal with a young writer unless I sense he has utterly given his life over to it”
I just came across this 2006 Publishers Weekly piece about Jim Harrison. I confess I’ve never read any of his work (I’m dreadfully ignorant in the modern fiction
On crafting a Digital Sabbath
I published a short piece on Medium about digital Sabbaths. I was inspired to write it by Jessica Valenti's entirely unobjectionable piece in The Guardian about how deleting
C. S. Lewis: “you can’t study men”
"I happen to believe that you can’t study men, you can only get to know them, which is quite a different thing.” (C. S. Lewis in That Hideous
“26 out of 45 customers spend an average of 3 minutes taking photos of the food”
My friend Anthony Townsend points me to this great piece by a New York restaurant owner who was trying to figure out why fewer customers were being served
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work” (Flaubert)
I hope Mason Currey’s book Daily Rituals, on the daily schedules of various creative people, is selling well, because it’s the volume that’s launched a thousand infographics. The most
Christopher Alexander’s advice to young professionals: Aim for Chartres
From the preface to Richard Gabriel’s book Patterns in Software [pdf]: In my life as an architect, I find that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students
“Being a writer can’t be treated like it’s a job”
I think it’s fair to say that unless you’re an academic*, everyone who writes a book hopes that it’ll do well enough for them to start writing full-time.
“Being a writer can’t be treated like it’s a job”
I think it’s fair to say that unless you’re an academic*, everyone who writes a book hopes that it’ll do well enough for them to start writing full-time.
Talking about binge-watching in Le Nouvel Observateur
This weekend Le Nouvel Observateur ran a front-page article on binge watching that features a couple quotes from me. If you didn’t know better you’d think I spoke French.