by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity
It’s very difficult to boil the entire ocean. The ocean is so vast, that if you tried to boil it with fire or natural gas or lava or a nuclear bomb, you may be able to induce a few minutes of boiling within a small volume, but quite soon the boiling will stop....
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter, Writing
In my physician days attending medical conferences, whenever I tweeted about the physician speakers I “mentioned” ( by using the @ symbol) both the speaker’s Twitter handle and their organization’s Twitter handle. Example: I just heard a great talk from @DrX...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Philosophy
Most of us have run across Teddy Roosevelt’s “Arena” speech. Here’s part of it: “It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Blogging, Writing
The bench pictured above is one of my favorite early morning blogging spots. It’s about 5 minutes away from my home, located in a small park in Medina, Washington, right on Lake Washington. In the background is Mercer Island. It’s reasonable quiet, without any car...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Book Reviews, Writing Habits
My book, Writing Tools: 55 Essential Strategies For Every Writer, is falling apart. It’s binding on the spine is torn halfway up, and this tear extends through several pages. It has stains and has been “dog-eared” throughout. It’s a book on the last leg of...
