Unquiet Desperation

photo credit: s,B - Michael Brenton-Kingof The Wachoo Wachoo

It seems to me that the greatest risk facing creative, driven people today is not obscurity. It’s burnout.

I read this in a blog entry today:

“Let’s be honest, when was the last time you felt as though you had enough time to do the things you wanted [...]

Part 2: Dealing with Email

Email is a particular problem. It’s probably the worst of all the offending mediums of communication as far as sheer emotional baggage. For me, it hits with two distinct emotions:

The first time you load it after an extended period, there’s the dread of learning just [...]

Part 1: Clearing the Workspace

It’s Sunday evening, around 6pm. I walk upstairs to put the laundry away and pull out a few things to get ready for the week. I switch on the light in my bedroom and there, across the room, is my desk, and on this desk, this very laptop. It [...]

Introduction

I have a love/hate relationship with my computer. I truly enjoy working on it…my Macbook is a wonderful piece of technology, and doing anything from writing code to developing fiction on it is a dream. In this way, it’s a fantastic, comfortable tool.

On the other hand, it’s also my ball and chain, or my accurately [...]