Kojo
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Storyteller, Writer, Content Strategist, Freelance Editor, Author: Listen To Your Footsteps, Host: Listen To Your Footsteps Podcast, African, Father
Kojo
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As the world hurtles on toward its mysterious rendezvous, the old act of slowly reading a serious book becomes an elegiac exercise.
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Just a moment...
dailygrail.comOblique Strategies
stoney.sb.orgCreative research is all about collecting the dots. It’s more common to think of “connecting the dots” but the truth is that you can’t connect the dots you can’t see.
Tom Critchlow • Building a Digital Garden
Neil Gaiman has two rules when he sits down to write:1. He doesn't have to write anything if he doesn't feel like it.2. He can't leave or do anything else until the writing time he set aside is over.(This comes from his appearance on the Tim Ferriss podcast - it's worth a listen.)
Josh Spector on LinkedIn: Neil Gaiman has two rules when he sits down to write: 1. He doesn't have… | 12 comments
Once the habit of reading has taken hold—usually when we are very young—it cannot be easily dislodged.
Haruki Murakami • Novelist as a Vocation
Stories are not a simple recounting of events. They are not a thorough reporting of moments over a given period of time. Stories are the crafted representation of events that are related in such a way to demonstrate change over time in the life of the teller.
Dan Kennedy • Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
To return to information overload: this means treating your "to read" pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it). After all, you presumably don't feel overwhelmed by all the unread books in the British Library – and not because
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