Natasha van der Meijden

I don't want to manage knowledge. I want to live it.

“The trick to writing well is to...

– take long sentences and make them short

– take confusing ideas and make them clear

– take unrelated concepts and make them related

...without losing the main idea in the process.”

There are a lot of things I want to do. I want to create and build and make and write.

And then, of course, there are other things that I just have to do, like bookkeeping and responding to emails.

Sometimes, it all gets to be too much. There are too many things to do! I need to figure out where to start! I get paralyzed by the sheer enormity of it... See more

Go out and do something.

It isn’t your room that’s

a prison, it’s yourself.

~ Sylvia Plath

I do like the rush of rushing. And to an extent, I am quite good at rushing—at doing things in a high-intensity, high-pressure way. But my sense is that I am much better off when I enjoy the pause, slow down, be where I am, and build strength patiently. I’m better off when I remember to take my time, to realize that the journey is long and it... See more

We do not seek pleasure, we seek plot. Desire that obeys is boring. Desire that evades, withholds, arrives late but devastating? That’s the stuff of myth. That’s what keeps poets employed and therapists overbooked. We don’t want closure, we want cliffhangers. The ones that leave us pacing, rewinding, editing our own dialogue long after the credits... See more