New to the site? These are the essays I'd read first, in the order I'd read them. Each one stands alone, and together they sketch the way I think about attention, craft, and deliberate work.
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The essays I'd read first, in order.
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Habits
A field guide to deliberate work
Seven small habits for work that is calm, focused, and worth the effort you give it, learned slowly and mostly by getting them wrong first.
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Craft
Why craft outlasts talent
Talent gets attention early. Craft keeps compounding long after the applause has faded, and it is available to almost everyone.
4 min read -
Reading
The case for slow reading
Reading quickly is easy. Reading well takes time, and the time is the point. On finishing fewer books and keeping more of them.
5 min read -
Decisions
How to make better decisions with less noise
Most decisions go wrong long before we make them, buried under other people’s opinions and our own dread. A practical way to clear the signal from the noise.
5 min read