I watched this video of an Isaac Asimov video, and THIRTY YEARS ago he is describing how we're destroying our environment and there will be deserts and the population will destroy earth and so on. We've known about this for even longer. Why will nothing change? People are lazy, short sighted, greedy. That's why. We …
The world goes on
People you haven't seen for a dozen years are doing interesting, exciting, boring, frustrating, amazing, awful things. They are making friends, having epiphanies, worrying over tough decisions, and maybe you pop into their head now and then, maybe more or less than they pop into your head. The strange and huge world of other people's …
So slow oh no
Remember when I was excited about writing quicker? 20k words, hooray, I thought. Well, that was nearly two months ago... and I've only written 5k words since then. What is happening?? I think one important thing is knowing what your goal is. I ran out of things I was sure about, and had to manufacture …
In the shadow of the moon
I saw the eclipse, the total eclipse, and though I've seen pictures and knew what would happen, no words or pictures can match the effect of being there. It begins slowly, a sliver of the sun gone black, a sense of surreality at seeing such a common fixture in the sky and our psychology shifting …
Amazing ideas
You have them, all the time. And some part of you might want to hold onto them, to save them for later when you're 'better'. Or you might think that one idea is the best idea you'll ever have, and you might feel anxious to get it right. Well, you'll have a hundred other ideas, …
Jonas David 