Finn Schubert

“The detritus of our validation-seeking”

Tara McMullin’s post on overcommitting and the validation spiral

Remember when “habits” were bad?

My first habit tracker app was called HabitBull and I

Duly Noted by Jorge Arango

I recently finished Duly Noted: Extend Your Mind Through Connected

Exercise: My creative practice will be / won’t be

Trying out an exercise I designed to help get to

It wasn’t writer’s block. I needed a new format.

I’ve just spent the last half hour searching around

Learning to Exist in Public

My public existence was not an equation to be solved to other people’s liking.

Maybe online writing is like squirreling away acorns

"Practice telling and retelling your story. Over time, it will clarify."

It wasn’t writer’s block. I needed a new workflow.

What had seemed like a willpower issue—(why am I not writing?) or an intelligence issue (am I not smart enough?) or a time issue (when can I write, I have a baby)—was really an issue of workflow and tools.

The false romance of knowledge management systems

All the smart people had a particular way that they

Productivity app or futile bargain with the universe?

I tried out the Minimalist Phone app last week. I