Jake

Burnout is the ultimate agency-killer. This is so true that I’ve learned to identify a reduction in agency as one of the first signs of burnout, one that shows up even before I consciously realize what’s happening.

Problems should come from success, or being on the brink of success rather than being invented by some intellectual quest.

"If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish."

David Foster Wallace

"What a story is “about” is to be found in the curiosity it creates in us, which is a form of caring." - George Saunders

"If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that." - Stephen King