Five books I keep returning to
Not the best books I have read. The five I find myself, without planning to, opening again. Three of these were gifts. Two I…
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The shortcuts I actually use
I have a dotfiles repo that I have been pretending to maintain for about a decade. Most of what is in it I never…
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A weekly review template
Sunday afternoon, somewhere between the last cup of coffee and the start of dinner. The whole thing takes about twenty minutes. I am posting…
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Ten small unsubscribes
Not the dramatic kind. Not quit your job unsubscribing. The small kind. The ten or fifteen minutes a week kind that, compounded over a…
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An anatomy of a quieter day
Not a perfect day. A quieter one. Here is what is in it, in roughly the order it shows up. Morning Before anyone else…
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What I’m leaving behind
It is the middle of the year, which is the most honest place to take stock. The beginning of the year is full of…
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Two views on a single desk
The same desk, twice. The morning version and the evening version. Same wood, same window, same lamp, same coffee ring. Almost everything else is…
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An invitation
I am putting together a small thing — a six-week, low-friction series on building a quieter relationship with your own attention. No app. No…
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Some sentences I underline
From the back pages of three notebooks. No attribution where I have lost it. No commentary where the sentence is doing the work. The…
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On returning — to the same place, the same notebook, the same morning light — again
It is the same window. It has been the same window for nine years. The light has not changed, but I have, which means…