Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
This is why I continually refer back to the early days of the personal website. Most website now seem to write everything as if the are auditioning for Wired or The New York Times. Everything is an "article." Every thing is big and overly structured. In contrast, the personal website was about the small, the raw, and the connection. It was about completely realized concepts. It was reactions and journals. "I just read this paragraph and I think this." As you can probably tell by now, I'm trying to bring this energy here—right now.
Too often, we think of notebooks as a way-station: a necessary stop en-route to the perfected, polished work of art. But what if the notebook is the work of art? What if the process of taking notes is the point?
He went down to the firehouse and cast the first ballot of his life, for Donald Trump.
Enjoyment matters.
It is often the difference between me doing something and me not doing something. This is the reason I frequently re-arrange rooms. When the energy is wrong is works as a deterrent. I know that sounds woo-woo, and maybe it is, but it is also true. I know the vibe is off in a room when either I find myself not going into it often,
... See moreI wake up early, brew fresh coffee in the kitchen, pour some in a big mug, sit down at my desk, and boot up my computer (there are times, I must
admit, when I miss the days of manuscript sheets and my fat Montblanc fountain pen). Then I sit there and muse about what to write that day. Such moments are pure bliss. To tell the truth, I have never
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