by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing
Reading is not writing. Both require sustained attention, both require skill with language, and both require an expenditure of intellectual energy. Yet even deep reading—with pencil and highlighter in hand, physically engaging with an article, poem, or book-—is mostly...
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...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Blogging, Writing, Writing Habits
Looking at my blog critically, I can say the following things: The content is average, with only rare (once per month?) moments of deep insight.The writing is average.Taken as a whole, it is unfocused. So, with all of this mediocrity going on, why do I love my blog?...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing, Writing Habits
My wife is doing a fabulous job painting our living room this week—much better than I could achieve. Why? Because in this creative domain she has two things I lack: judgment and patience. And in my domain of writing? These are the two traits (or are they skills, or...
