Things I keep in mind as I enter my slow productivity season. This post is a recent issue from my newsletter Inputs|Outputs. I could not pick a title for this newsletter, so I titled it “Slow … Season”. The other options were: Slow is Fast Slow Productivity Slow with Intention …

Showing up is half the battle. This post is a recent issue from my newsletter Inputs|Outputs. In the last newsletter, I said: I’ll have two-three weeks off before the fall class begins. I will enjoy the time off. Soon after publishing that, I received a notification from my instructor with…

Long-form personal (written) communication may be dying. And I will miss it. — There was a time we used to communicate by writing long-form. Now, it’s done in 140-characters or fewer. At first, we hand-wrote letters to communicate. You sat at a desk, or table, with a pen in hand, and a drink nearby. You scrawled onto the pages things you were most…

The past week in Austin, TX did not leave me with much to learn, or do, but survive. You may have read a dozen stories about the failure of the Texas power grid. Or you may have been linked to 2011 reports from a previous cold-snap in Texas and wondered…

Of the many things that happened in 2020, getting back to writing has been a most welcome change. Too many projects and too many interests resulted in little to no growth in writing and little to no writing in all. 2020, and to be honest, the pandemic, pressed me to…

As I’ve been lacking on posting book reviews, I figured I would cheat with at least a few for this post. And thus, I present to you, my favorite books of 2020. The criteria were simple; books rated a 5 in a 1 out of 5 rating. There were 12…

How I powered through “writer’s block” — Frozen In Thought There is this fog that obfuscates the simplest of things from my view. Idea creation comes to a stop. Connecting thoughts slow to a crawl. …

First, Read More Everyone says that to write better, you must read and read a lot and read widely! Reading exposes you to the variety of writing styles. It dips you into a story with differing plots, worlds, and characters. As a writer, you read books differently. More critically. …

I have not talked about my writing process as I have not shared much about my writing. (Ignoring the countless past blogs I’ve had on varying topics.) Nor have I talked about how I read books. At the core of both these items is the application Readwise. This post is…