by Matthew Rehrl MD | Blogging, Writing, Writing Habits
This particular blog post is being created using the native voice to text digital dictation software on my iPad iOS system. There’s nothing fancy going on here. I am simply dictating a blog pos rough draft directly within my Ulysses software program and I will...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Blogging, Writing, Writing Habits
My wife thinks my blog is boring. She thinks it’s too unfocused to attract a consistent readership, and too idiosyncratic to keep them. She’s also pretty sure it will never attract a large readership. In other words, from a digital business perspective, she thinks...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing, Writing Habits
Knowing how to eat well is one thing; eating well is another.Knowing to save for a rainy day in one thing; saving for a rainy day is another.Knowing to exercise every day is one thing; getting up at six a.m. to go for a walk is another. Knowing I have to do something...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Writing, Writing Habits
I’ve discussed writing as an infinite game before on my blog, usually just as a side note (Infinite Games—Solitaire Anyone? and Kaizen, Infinite Games, or “Just Playing Around A Little”?). But I now realize that an infinite game mindset is critical for my success as a...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing, Writing Habits
The other day a fell into a curiosity rabbit hole. I received an email from my website host that my website service may be limited for a short time in two weeks due to an upgrade to PHP 8.0 (PHP is the server-side computer language that powers most websites). They...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter, Writing, Writing Habits
About once a week, I load up my most commonly used writers’ hashtags on Tweetdeck, and I spend twenty minutes or so commenting upon, retweeting, and liking about 20 tweeters’ tweets. Most of these people I will also follow. I call this my weekly Writer’s...
