Tag: oliver burkeman
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Day 291 of 1000: What I Want to Do
It feels almost wrong to be able to spend my days investing and trading. But that’s what I want to do.
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Day 230 of 1000: Freestyle Investing
Applying the lessons of freewriting to investing, for people who can’t stomach buy-and-hold.
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Day 229 of 1000: A Freewrite about Fiction and Unclenching
Freewriting can help you unclench, says Oliver Burkeman. Other ways of unclenching, including slow reading of fiction.
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Day 179 of 1000: writing from interest not deprivation
Writing, and creating in general, from interest curiosity not a sense of deprivation or needing to make money.
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Day 174 of 1000: The complexity of freedom
There’s no easy way to make important choices in our lives. We don’t know what might ensue or who we might become through those choices.
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Day 148 of 1000: Groundhog day
The creative’s groundhog day: Just keep showing up and doing the work day after day, with ideas from Kleon and Burkeman.
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Day 140 of 1000: storytelling vs cultural criticism in nonfiction
Much nonfiction today is filled with anecdote and narrative designed to support the author’s viewpoint. What I’m doing with my book is something different.
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Day 103 of 1000: Making it easy is not enough
Oliver Burkeman suggests you ask yourself, when facing a daunting task, what if this were easy? I want my memoir rewrite to be fun too.
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Day 91 of 1000: When people don’t understand your art
Why choose to make art that people don’t understand, when it leaves you open to criticism and rejection? Because the alternative is worse.