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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. — Douglas Adams (Shot on the long, beautiful, northern stretch of the E75, between Ivalo and Utsjoki.) P.S. More photography? Subscribe!

Sometimes Seth Godin makes it easy for me to do the newsletter. There’s a pithy post that says everything I want to say. So, to the kids I coach, this is the best writing advice I could give you! (Everything below the break is Seth, (emphases mine)) Decorating a car with bling, mudflaps and an airhorn is a form of signalling. You can show your peers that you have the resources to waste on superfluous adornments. ...

From the Writing Routines1 pdf that is available on signing up to their mailing list… “If I had a nickel for every person who ever told me he/she wanted to become a writer but “didn’t have time to read,” I could buy myself a pretty good steak dinner. Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” — Stephen King, On Writing ...

If you are looking for something to read, you might find something interesting here. May The Great Mental Models, Shane Parrish (the first of a soon to be multivolume work. must read times a hundred. this book teaches you how to think. and how to do it well. have i said it’s a must read? you must read it.) Coraline, Neil Gaiman (must read. scarily charming.) April Keep Going, Austin Kleon (must read. new annual read. timely. beautiful quotes. hugely inspirational) ...

If you haven’t read James Clear’s blockbuster book on habits, you owe it to yourself to. It’s the best way to build habits and routines that are an intrinsic part of you. One of the best ways to a super productive you is, as James describes in this excerpted post, saying No. Ever think about the events you set in action when you just say yes as a reactive reflex? The Difference Between Yes and No The words “yes” and “no” get used in comparison to each other so often that it feels like they carry equal weight in conversation. In reality, they are not just opposite in meaning, but of entirely different magnitudes in commitment. ...

Go see how large your vocabulary is! And don’t cheat! At least the first time :) Click here to take the test. This is me1. Subscribe to the newsletter already, will ya? Ok, I cheated. The original one was 40,000 so i took it again :P ↩︎