Attention
The middle is where the work is
Every project has a long, unglamorous stretch after the idea stops being interesting and before the end is in sight. That stretch is the job.
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Latest writing
Latest writing
Newest first, across every subject.
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Reading
Reading forty books a year, honestly
How many I finish, how many I abandon, and the rule that changed both numbers.
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Working Life
What I got wrong about mornings Members
It is 4:52 in the morning in February and I am standing in a cold kitchen waiting for a kettle, because at five
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Workshops
What the stonemason said
Nineteen years on one cathedral, and one sentence that reorganised how I think about a desk.
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