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How to End Your Workday: The Hemingway Principle
Ernest Hemingway had a rule for ending his writing days: he stopped while he still knew exactly what would come next—sometimes, reportedly, in the middle of a sentence.
As Hemingway told the Paris Review in 1958:
“You write until you...
How to Pay Attention and Care Deeply in a Chaotic World
If TIME Magazine had a feeling of the year, a top contender for 2026 would be overwhelmed.
It doesn’t matter your age, geography, or gender—everyone is feeling the effects of an increasingly chaotic world. The sheer volume of input is beyo...
The Real Meaning of "The Road Not Taken"
It’s graduation season, that special time of year when young people wear robes while booing mentions of AI, and when I get to hear Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” cited regularly — and almost always erroneously.
Here is the famou...
Free Book at a Free Event, And Some Good News
Tomorrow night, I’ll be back home in Chicago for a conversation with the New York Times reporter Megan Twohey, who won a Pulitzer for her work investigating Harvey Weinstein. Megan and I will be back in our high school auditorium for this d...
An Urgent (Fun) Challenge for My Readers
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post in which I talked about the ritual and discipline that has characterized Isabel Allende’s writing for the past 43 years—during which she’s produced a bestseller roughly every 18 months. She is the most transl...
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Author of the New York Times best sellers RANGE, The Sports Gene, and (newly) Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
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