Here’s my plan for my various online activities:
The Everyday Cafe will be expanded beyond its focus on cooking to include all aspects of family life. I miss momblogging but don’t want to create a new blog for it and don’t want to do it here, since this site has typically been more professionally oriented.
I am […]
One of my favorite journalists and thinkers, Virginia Postrel, muses on objectivity and journalism after reading Peter Galison and Lorraine Daston’s Objectivity:
Reading the book, I began to understand why I’ve never embraced my own profession’s celebration of objectivity. Real objectivity would turn the journalist into a C-Span camera, simply recording data without any sort of […]
So social media requires real people. That’s what Fred Wilson says in response to Om about turning GigaOM into a business.
Disclosure: I am a real person. But Fred doesn’t know me. And like many GigaOM readers and commenters, he doesn’t see me as a person. The flip side of trolling commenters who feel deindividuated themselves […]
Stephanie Booth has been reading Taleb’s The Black Swan and twittering her impressions. I had forgotten until she reminded me that Taleb spends ample time on the human tendency to engage in simplification and storytelling when trying to make sense of the world. Taleb calls journalists “industrial producers of the distortion” and says anecdotes sway […]
You’ve probably experienced flow: that sense of effortless engagement in what you’re doing. Maybe you get it when you’re coding or designing or writing or painting. Time and self disappears, channeled into the world making itself real.
Flow guru Csikszentmihalyi suggests you are likely to get into flow when:
You are engaged actively with the world. Surfing […]
Everyone suffers from burnout at some time or another. You know what it feels like: everything irritates you; everyone bothers you; every task requires too much energy. You can’t imagine ever feeling motivated by your work again. What do you do? Here are a few ideas… though they didn’t totally work for me. I greeted […]
To inspire and motivate myself as I prepare to write a book this summer, I reread some of William Zinsser’s On Writing Well. I’ve pulled out ten of my favorite quotes to share with you:
“Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she […]
