ANATOMY OF A NO : Life Tetris

While writing this book, I invited best-selling author, coach, and Harvard-trained sociologist Martha Beck to an event. Her brief, eloquent response was an instant addition to my No Swipe File. Here is my favorite line:

“I would LOVE to come and participate, but I can’t make it happen in the next couple of months due... See more

from Reboot by Jerry Colonna, is “How am I complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want?”

People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time, they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.

— Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

Edmund Wilson regrets that it is impossible for him...

...without compensation to:

read manuscripts

contribute to books or periodicals

do editorial work

judge literary contests

deliver lectures

address meetings

make after-dinner speeches

broadcast.

...under any circumstances to:

contribute to or take part in symposiums

take part in chain-poems or... See more