Archive | October, 2010

How not to check email

28 October 2010 · Thinking · Comments { 2 }

I use Gmail for my personal email, and recently installed a new feature called “Priority Inbox”, which automatically sorts out your important email and puts it at the top of your screen, while leaving the less important stuff lower down. Great! I always seem to be drowning in email, so this seemed like a good [...]

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Monday morning inspiration

25 October 2010 · Thinking · Comments { 0 }

“The author’s task is to synchronize thoughts, images, raw creative material in a meaningful way, a task as difficult and frantic and joyful as herding cats.” —Brandon Dorn

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Monday morning inspiration

18 October 2010 · Thinking · Comments { 0 }

“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.” —Georgia O’Keefe (via Crazyhorse Journal)

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Monday morning inspiration

11 October 2010 · Thinking · Comments { 0 }

“Everything I learned about human nature I learned from me.” —Chekhov (via Crazyhorse Journal)

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Life is too sweet to waste on self propaganda

7 October 2010 · Thinking · Comments { 0 }

Came across a good little article in the LA Times on author self-promotion. It seems that a letter from Jack Kerouac has just turned up at a literary auction, and it bears an interesting quote: I can just see the shabby literary man carrying a “bulging briefcase” rushing from one campus to another, one lecture [...]

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Monday morning inspiration

4 October 2010 · Thinking · Comments { 0 }

“I believe in words. I believe that words are little gods. I believe that books are bibles.” —Marcel Pomerlo (via Crazyhorse Journal)

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