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One Thing at a Time

I wrote something similar in my post about attention, but this felt relevant to adult learning as well. I’ve been learning how to play guitar for the last month or so, and before that, for the last few years, I’ve been (slowly) teaching myself how to draw. And

How to Get Your Attention Back

I’m halfway through my Digital Declutter, and I’ve settled into it now. You know how, when you lose your smartphone and temporarily have to use a dumbphone, you actually end up finding it fairly restful? This has been like that. It helps that these days the change is

Productivity Systems and the Bullet Journal

I’m trying to turn this thing back into a proper blog and not just a newsletter archive, so I’m going to try and write shorter, more frequent posts. (This one’s not short, because it’s basically four blog posts I couldn’t be bothered to separate.) I’

How Lucky, to Have Been (A Personal Reflection on Ice Cream Man #18)

Note: This essay was originally published in August 2020, in PanelxPanel #37, which was the Ice Cream Man special issue. I contributed a lot of articles to the early issues of PxP, partly because Hass is a friend, and partly because he would let me write whatever I wanted to.

Reading & Film Round-Up July-November

I’m doing this, as mentioned in the previous post, to wipe the slate clean for next year, and to have an accurate count of how much I read and watched this year. To that end, some of these capsule reviews will be just a sentence or two, and some

Daredevil: Born Again

Just got to reading this for the second time ever – which is an odd thing to say about a comic I own two different editions of (the collection and the IDW Artisan Edition). Here’s the thing. Before this, in my naïveté, I only liked Born Again for the David