I felt anxious today. I felt the sense of not being able to please everyone, of disappointing a lot of people. I felt the pressure and impossibility of being a trans person in leadership. We are not supposed to exist. We are supposed to be metaphors. We are supposed to
And it’s my second essay collection. My first essay collection, Even the Cemeteries Have Space Here, is sold out and I don’t talk much about it anymore. I’m glad I made it, I was so joyful designing it and getting it printed and connecting with people about
I’m reading Start More Than You Can Finish, by Becky Blades, which I believe I found through Tracy Durnell’s page documenting her explorations into creative process. I was instantly intrigued by the title, having also read Charlie Gilkey’s Start Finishing, which obviously has some similar themes but
"if you can’t see the small you will keep leaping from built thing to built thing"
An informal continuation of Remember when habits were bad? I’m still surprised that I can’t find much on google regarding how habit tracking was invented. It seems like the kind of thing someone would pitch a deep dive into, especially given how easy it is to find articles
I don’t know what I believe anymore about getting things done. I’m writing this while my toddler pushes trucks around on the floor, so I have one eye on him and an awareness that I don’t know how long I’ll have to work on this before
Just as I was going to resign myself to not writing this evening (a huge disappointment, as I’m surprisingly susceptible to the smiley faces in this low-key habit tracker, I opened an email about being done for the day from Oliver Burkeman (author of Four Thousand Weeks: Time
That satisfying feeling of turning to the first exercise, with that virtuous thrill of embarking on a journey that will no doubt transform you in the exact ways the book’s title promises.
Today I learned how to make slides using Advanced Slides in Obsidian, and how to make diagrams using Mermaid. Both of these involve making something visual with just text commands. Instead of dragging shapes and text around, in Advanced Slides, you identify where you want it in relation to the
Why a book and not a pamphlet?