I’m done with setting goals. Instead, I’m organizing my life and work using a system of domains, tensions, and experiments. Domains are broad areas of sustained interest or focus: the Big Themes, the Great Work, the Things That Matter.Tensions are pinch points within those domains: dissatisfactions, gaps, or opportunities to…
Author’s Note: This post is about a process I used to create a short story: “Bloom.” If you prefer, you can always read the story first. Years ago, a professor of mine told me his secret for writing fiction. While writing, he would keep the t.v. on with the volume…
I enjoyed Cortex Futura’s latest post on algorithms of thought (“True Algorithms of Thought Have Arrived” – CortexFutura.com). In reflecting on the role algorithms of thought have played in my own life and work, I’d agree that new technologies for sharing algorithms of thought have arrived (especially with the advent of Roam…