Archive - Do the Work

ten things from three days of isolation

Jul 22 •

I can't talk about money, but I can talk about luck

the bag of snakes

Jul 19 •

Creative Genius in Powering Off

I tried and failed to write about money

Jul 12 •

June 2024

Help Wanted: One Rooster is out today

four hundred million years in the making

Jun 18 •

I rewrote the whole thing

Help Wanted: An Ending, Part 5

Jun 11 •

Apparently Ghosted

Help Wanted: An Ending, Part 4

Jun 4 •

May 2024

Major revisions: what is this farm?

Help Wanted: An Ending, Part 3

May 28 •

A Book Deal (back in 2014)

Help Wanted: An Ending, Part 2

May 21 •

When a book takes 10 years from book deal to publication day

Help Wanted: an ending

May 14 •

On being a confident beginner

begin, and begin again, and begin again

May 10 •

April 2024

On Slow Productivity

I love this book. Plus: a new way of working.

Apr 23 •

solo and singular in a crowd

I didn't plan to write about the eclipse

Apr 11 •

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