Untying Knots Yesterday, I wrote about patterns, chaos and figuring out who you are based on your previous actions. One of the things that I wrote about was how writing about business was like “pulling my teeth out.” I figured that was an interesting phrase as and after I wrote it. So, this morning, I…
You Reveal Yourself To Yourself I’ve done one month of daily blog posts on this site for the first time since, I think, 2019. While I am kind of glad I stopped doing daily posts just in time for the site to get wiped out, thus losing only 300 or so posts rather than the…
Crucial Part of Administrative Life So, as you’re all no doubt sick of hearing, I’ve been working a lot on big projects recently. After a few years of living easy, I decided that in order to get everything I need done, I have to act like I have clients again, and become an actual, serious…
A Plan Is As Good As How Easy It Is To Stick To It My original “plan” to write a blog post every day in 2024 is proving harder than I thought. I expected to have a lot of material to work with on the launch of The Vault and what I’m affectionately/irritatingly calling the…
Not much to report today, because it strikes me as a lot easier to do this whole blogging thing once the other major projects are up, so I’ve been spending the day working on that. It just occurred to me as I went to switch the computer off that, while I’ve written 7,000 words today,…
OK. I promised I wasn’t going to do any of these short posts anymore, but I’m about 60% through today’s post and the computer keeps crashing. It’s 20:07, I’ve been awake since 5am and on the screen since 9am. It’s time to call it a day and for any of you who read these as…
“Bleed On The Paper” Is Horrible Advice When I started writing online, it was pretty common for bloggers and the like to tell you to “Bleed on the paper.” By that, the common wisdom was that if you shared your struggles, vulnerabilities and the “real life” behind the work, that it’d pay dividends in terms…
Another day, another headache… In the past two years, I’ve been taking it rather easy. Any time I didn’t feel like writing, I didn’t have to. Such is the benefit of using a pen name, writing in a less demanding niche, generally building decent foundations for yourself. Now, with these challenges, already the stress is…
Introducing the #366 Challenges In yesterday’s post, I wrote about two things; reading challenges and writing challenges. Or, for the non-writers out there, the wider framework was to have a passive, learning-based challenge coupled with an action-challenge. Today, I’m going to build some momentum and energy and finally get around to posting what I’m up…
I remember… … the days where I could write several of these posts a day. Give me 30 minutes, and I’d write some cool stuff with actionable advice and prescient lessons. Now I’m out of practice, and need to focus on getting some sort of proper schedule going on for these posts. Especially weekends, which…