Edit Like A Cat!
On the podcast The Self Publishing Show (@SelfPubForm), I heard a great quote from Tiffany Yates Martin (@FoxPrintEd -author of Intuitive Editing) about how to approach the process of editing and writing: Write like a dog, edit like a cat. It’s similar to Hemingway’s...
My Recent Twitter Frenzy
A couple of weeks ago, I went on a slight Twitter frenzy, creating about 19 tweets, most of them over a few hours on a Sunday morning. The subjects of my tweets were varied: hockey, The Mandalorian, my cat, Liverpool FC, a great writer named Terry Brooks, Katy Perry,...
The Purpose of The First Draft
In a recent podcast about writing, the author Bryan Collins (@BryanJCollins) said something both simple and insightful: The purpose of a first draft is to exist. Perhaps (but not necessarily) with the exception of life—in which the first draft is also the final...
My Coin Bucket: A Call To Simplicity
Why do I have a coin bucket? The efficiency of effort. I never count change, pay with change, or take change with me. Instead, whenever I get home I empty my pockets and put all of my change into my coin bucket. Then, once a year, usually around December, I go to my...
My Favorite October Blog Post
My favorite post which I wrote in October was the one I published just a few days ago called Avoiding Drama. I don't see this as simply a task to make me more efficient (which it certainly does), but also as a task which protects my soul.
Innovation and Shutting The Door
I believe that innovation (what I like to define as creativity engineering) benefits from collaboration, diversity, and serendipitous engagement. But another thing innovation needs? Periodic separation and quiet. Alone time. Thinking time. Silence. Open doors are...
My Most Important Weekly Thing: Prioritization
For the past decade, every Sunday Morning (with rare exceptions) I spend 1-2 hours doing what I and David Allen (of Getting Things Done fame) call The Weekly Review. A lot gets done in this review. I do some light things (such as reviewing my weekly affirmations),...
Blog Short
Blog posts don't have to be long to be effective.
My Third Most Important Day of 2021
October 25th, 2021 was my third most important day of the year—not just as a physician, but also (and more importantly) as a husband and a citizen.
My Daily Blogging: Mindless (Mostly) Work + Creative Work
The creative part of blogging is choosing the subject, writing the piece, and selecting a photo. Everything else is mindless. Creative: Choose the topicCreative: Write the rough draft of the blog post on Ulysses.Mindless: Spell check the post on Grammarly.Mindless:...