Kojo
@kojobaffoe
Storyteller, Writer, Content Strategist, Freelance Editor, Author: Listen To Your Footsteps, Host: Listen To Your Footsteps Podcast, African, Father
Kojo
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Everything I Know about Self-Publishing
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Riding when it’s all about the dirt and gravel
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For while it can be many things, serious reading is above all an agency of self-making.
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
knowledge workers operate as a state of “divided attention,” in which the mind rarely gets closure before switching tasks, creating a muddle of competing activations and inhibitions that all add up to reduce our performance.
Cal Newport • A World Without Email
The apparent limitation of the ad-supported media business model is that there will never be enough traffic to satisfy the beast. But while subscription revenue is stickier and gives creators more runway and short-term security, eventually the flame that started any new project will be extinguished. A new muse will need to be found.
Myles Udland • The passion of the posts
The point is, writing well, even an ordinary letter or a well-considered e-mail, demands the generosity of your time, effort, and thought. You have to care enough that it’s worth your energy, weighing that cost against the cost of not doing it.
Kurt Vonnegut • Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style
Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work