I stopped doing the Goodreads Reading Challenge in 2024 because I was trying to answer a very important question: who am I? All my adult life I’ve struggled with a …
Reading, challenges, and the AuDHD pendulum
Mindset
Book review: Miranda Hart – I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You
Miranda Hart is a British comedy legend, actor and national treasure. Her masterful sitcom, eponymously titled, is an ode to the joy and value of discovering, embracing and celebrating one’s …
Please self-improve responsibly
Have you gratitude journalled today? What about the frog – you ate the frog, right? And how’s your productivity; it better be at least 150% what it was last week. …
Writing…just for the hell of it
The other day I was playing with my daughter. She had instructed me to help her lay some Paw Patrol playing cards in a path across the house. I have …
Relax, you don’t HAVE to change, actually
Places like Medium are a recovering perfectionist’s worst nightmare. Here I am trying to train myself out of absolutes and all-or-nothing thinking, only to be told by headline after headline …
No one cares. And that’s good.
One interesting, not to mention ironic, thing about low self-esteem and anxiety is that it’s possible to think you’re more worthless than a fax machine in a penguin enclosure and …
Protect your drive to create at all costs
Trying to write a book? Well I hope you’re not committing any of the writing sins on this list as long as my leg. And I trust you’ve remembered the …
A simple game to show why you shouldn’t fear failure
The fearful parts of our brains are on overdrive. They constantly scan for danger, working harder than an insomniac CEO on a caffeine kick. There is, after all, plenty in …
Our need for simplicity makes it harder for society to grow
‘Simple’ is an interesting word. It’s often desirable – many products, particularly software, will often sell themselves on making the complex simple. Simplicity is your friend, complexity is the enemy. …
Remember this before comparing yourself to others
Unless you somehow end up marooned on a desert island, you’ll be surrounded by people all your life. Spoiler alert: none of these life lessons will ever prepare you for …