Daniel Wentsch

The goal is to be the first choice for people who couldn’t imagine doing it themselves, simply because their work is too important or your work is too good for them to ignore.

The best way to upgrade a freelance career is to get better clients. They challenge you, pay you more and talk about you more. And you don’t get better clients by working hard

If we want students to keep reading books, faculty have the most important role to play—regardless of whatever new devices or platforms emerge to capture students’ attention. The reaction to declining reading skills, poor comprehension, and fragmented attention spans should not be to negotiate or compromise, but to double down on the cure.

The iterative process of confusion, endurance, and incremental understanding is what literature professors teach when they assign whole books. This march toward understanding doesn’t have a great name other than reading . We need to help students grow into the difficulty of reading. The best way to do that is not to “meet them where they are,” a

Adults underestimate the power of simply telling a young person to read a book and vouching for it ourselves.

My most vivid memory of reading an entire novel in college was picking up Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse . On an unseasonably warm spring night in 2002, I propped myself against the steps of the library, opened the book, and stayed there until the early morning.

. These days, I grab whatever notebook I feel like using. My notetaking has become more like my reading practice: read what you feel like, never feel obliged to finish, start a new book at any time. It sounds chaotic, and I have more half-read books than finished ones, but it has increased my reading dramatically. And most non-fiction books can be