I am writing more often on Substack these days. You can go there to read those things (there’s a gradually-growing collection of stuff at our Substack, Write Well & Publish Wisely), or you could download the Substack app to your phone and read our stuff there as a Substack native. Or you could just subscribe […]
Why do you do it?
There are only two fundamental reasons for writing anything. It’s either therapy or impact. If you are writing for impact, you are writing primarily for others. If you are writing for therapy, you are writing primarily for yourself. Anything written specifically for impact must focus on, and can only be judged by, its intended audience and the impact […]
How the Human Soul is like Miso Soup
When it is poured into the bowl of human consciousness, it is all mixed up, swirling and opaque. Allow it to sit undisturbed in solitude and it settles & clears. Spin the settled bowl slowly between your hands to observe the effect of fretting, in your soul: anxiety does not change the distribution of things […]