When I was writing The Distraction Addiction, I got into the habit of getting up super-early to write. I'm not a morning person, and never have been, but
A little while ago I got an invitation to contribute to Medium, and decided to try it out this morning. I posted there an essay on Nigel Thrift’s
This week's Chronicle of Higher Education has a long piece (behind a firewall) on the work of University of Washington professor David Levy. Levy wrote a very smart book in
Alex Mar talks about how the Internet is invading the writers' retreat, with predictable and lamentable results. Residencies have long been the writer’s last defense against the distractions
The day I'm trying to finish the copy edits to my book and dealing with an author questionnaire that's about as long as something written for the House
Me and Davis this evening. via Flickr Posted with Blogsy
Just got these in the mail…. via flickr Very exciting, in the way that only a vanishingly small number of grinding, attention-demanding tasks can be.
I got copyedits of my book today. I made the mistake of hitting some button that provided me with a summary of all the changes, and in a
This video from ASAPScience (via The Atlantic) is good: via YouTube My experience writing The Distraction Addiction followed many of the rules the video describes: boosting your productivity
Or so Silas House argues in a recent essay, "The Art of Being Still:" I’m not talking about the kind of stillness that involves locking yourself in a
