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"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.” —Charles Bukowski

increasingly convinced the work of a truly great editor or writing teacher is to keep asking “why do you care?” until you reach the live wire under th

Search engines — the window into the web for many people — top their results with pages containing thousands of words of auto-generated nothingness, p

Think like a gardener, not an architect: design beginnings, not endings. Unfinished = fertile

“If you want a new world, start making it right now, in whatever you are doing.” This is the best advice I ever had, it came from Brian Eno. If you im

Build a world. Make your projects and work a vessel for self-expression. Make your software match your vibe. Make reading your book feel like it feels

We are always telling stories, whether we realize it or not. We might as well get good at it. Good stories win people over. They provoke and inspire a