Personal Best
You can’t run a personal best every time, and trying to do so will make it less likely that you’ll improve by much at all.… Read More »Personal Best
creativity
Guillermo Del Toro on Duel as fuel; Or, Carrying Things on Your Own
One huge moment, and a peculiar one, was when I first saw a movie I revere and watch in awe every year: Steven Spielberg’s Duel.… Read More »Guillermo Del Toro on Duel as fuel; Or, Carrying Things on Your Own
A world class sentence
Could you write a world-class sentence – one that wouldn’t look out of place in a classic or a bestseller? Here are a three for… Read More »A world class sentence
Katherine Rundell on children’s books and imagination
Children’s fiction… offers to help us to refind things we may not even know we have lost. Adult life is full of forgetting… When you… Read More »Katherine Rundell on children’s books and imagination
Katherine Rundell on learning from children’s books
Children’s books today do still have a ghost of their educative beginnings, but what they are trying to teach us has changed. Children’s novels, to… Read More »Katherine Rundell on learning from children’s books
Katherine Rundell on the subversive politics of children’s books
A lot of children’s fiction has a surprising politics to it. Despite all our tendencies in Britain toward order and discipline – towards etiquette manuals… Read More »Katherine Rundell on the subversive politics of children’s books
Steven Pressfield on playing hurt
The concept in all these [“healing”] environments seems to be that one needs to complete his healing before he is ready to do his work.… Read More »Steven Pressfield on playing hurt
Matt Ridley: 15 principles of innovation from “How Innovation Works”
Note: these are a series of excerpts from a longer discussion – link below. I think it [Innovation] is the most important thing that happens… Read More »Matt Ridley: 15 principles of innovation from “How Innovation Works”
By the word
How long does it need to be? What would be different if, rather than being paid by the word, you were paying?
When I’m bigger
My sons tell fantastic stories about what they’re going to do and be when they’re grown up: spies, taxi drivers, race-car drivers, generals, fathers of… Read More »When I’m bigger