You’re all insane! Not really, I just wanted a snappy title. My post from yesterday has generated quite a firestorm of controversy. Not really, but hey, I can dream. Anyway, in my dream, I’m responding to my critics: I’m not calling you lazy. I’m saying that you’re hung up on one aspect of starting a …
Do Something!
The standard advice I used to get from my creative writing professors was to write SOMETHING. I’m a firm believer in this, but not often a practitioner. I’m also a firm believer in doing some sort of exercise regularly…but, again, I don’t follow through most of the time. Although…look: I’m writing something now, and I …
Books I’m Reading
I read the first 20 pages of a lot of computer books. I’ve been trying to be better about making it through the whole thing lately, but there are just so many. Here are some of books I’m reading now that I intend to make it all the way through. I’ve decided not to link …
Welcome to the reincarnated ChrisMinnick.com
This site needs a blog, and so I’m breaking out my old one. I don’t know what’s in the archives here, but I’m feeling good about things, so I’m just going to leave it all around for anyone who cares.
Getting something done
We spent the weekend implementing organizational systems at work, a la “Getting Things Done”. It feels good, but my mental life is still a mess because of all the non-business stuff running around. The next step is to get all that organized, but until I do, I need a place to jot down a couple …
Your basic catch-up post
I’m not going to go a year without posting something! I just finished doing this major revision to the book from HELL. I’m not feeling the relief that I should be feeling yet, however. Maybe next weekend I’ll actually believe that it’s done. Work is good. We have 3 full-time people and 3 interns now. …
new servers
steps yesterday: 16000 finished John Adams book yesterday and started on Out of Africa. work stuff is good. We have new servers. Today, fastmetrics’ network went down for a half hour, which makes me that much more eager to get our websites out of there.
Adams smart
steps: about 150000 listening to: David McCullough’s John Adams I sometimes have a tendency when reading/watching/listening to biographies of smart people to take pleasure in the failings and weaknesses of the person rather than being amazed and impressed by how far above me (intellectually) people like John Adams were. I realize that this is wrong, …