Benefits of a daily diary and topic journals 2019-01-28 You know those people whose lives are transformed by meditation or yoga or something like that? For me, it’s writing in my diary and journals.It

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In 2017, 8 years after we started this studio, we finally decided we should write down our guiding principles. It's a nice little document that we can check in with once in a while to make sure we're

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We all want to be our best selves. Improving anything starts with one simple step: tracking the right metrics. You can’t fix what you can’t measure. Companies have been using KPIs for decades to improve themselves. You should use that same methodology and invest in yourself . There are two reasons…

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Total read time (bolded sections): 2-3 minutes Total read time (complete): 12 minutes Last week, I had a wonderful conversation with Gary Taubes, my favorite science journalist and author of the incre

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I first entered Louisiana State Penitentiary in the early 60s, at the age of 18. I was in and out of that place for the rest of the decade. Back then, if you were young, black and had a record, police

I’m an editor at Random House, but for the last several years I’ve been writing around the edges of my day job: mornings, nights, weekends, wherever I can grab the free time. I began my first novel (w

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