When it comes to maintaining a productive, creatively fulfilling life, the simple answers are terribly alluring. I’ve swooned to…
Tag: productivity
Conceptual debt is killing your design process
Conceptual debt accrues when we take shortcuts in developing the foundational concepts behind our products.
The effortful way
Job one is doing the job.
How do you estimate the time needed for doing the writing?
The project managers turns to you and asks: “How long is it going to take to write this?” Hoo boy. It’s time to proceed very, very carefully.
Nothing unfamiliar (Tools I used to write a book)
My book advises designers to be intentional about the tools they choose and use to do the writing on…
Long paragraphs
“So often the long paragraphs I write in life are responses to Facebook posts, or reply letters to someone,…
Islands and icebergs
Spent all week working on something and I just trashed it. Wasn’t coming together. Hate to do it because…
Steady on
Damn the calendar. I don’t have the energy to set goals right now. Not big ones. Not new ones. Nobody asked me if I was ready for a new decade. I’m not, damn it — give a guy a minute.
Press and hold
I was having trouble with my internet service the other day. At one point the technician, Sanchez, had me…
Being the thing
Recently finished reading Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. I probably should have read it before…