Final Friday Five

Some August reading for you:

1. What would you take with you to read in space?
2. The OED added some new words
3. Great roundup of literary road trips
4. Science agrees: Reading before bed is good for you
5. Does mindfulness mean anything?

Happy last days of summer!

Final Friday Five

1. New research suggests there are 4 kinds of introversion
2. This made me laugh
3. How not to be Elizabeth Gilbert
4. Would you go in for Zappos’s new management structure?
5. The most beautiful new ink

Have a wonderful weekend!

Final Friday Five

It’s Monday, but aren’t we all pretending it’s Friday anyway?

1. Could anxiety be good for you?
2. A publisher will only publish books by women in 2018
3. Celebrating the art of clutter
4. “Quitting smoking is the khakis of existence.”
5. A great how-to on speaking and writing about transgender people

Final Friday Five

A few days late, but who’s counting? And anyway, these links are worth the wait.

1. When being a quitter makes you a winner
2. The Onion has a genius new redesign
3. Have you ever been punished for being productive?
4. A helpful roundup of hourly rate calculators
5. Can you solve this viral math problem? (I’m working on it.)

Final Friday Five

1. An introvert’s guide to being a digital nomad
2. This made me laugh (and gave me some ideas…)
3. Our little town is famous
4. Ever wondered how National Geographic stories get written?
5. My first book in partnership with the Mind and Life Institute came out this month!

And a 6th for good measure: Enter to win a year of free membership at coworking spaces all over the world!

Final Friday Five

Some reading to round out your March:

1. I saw Tania James read from and speak about her new novel (about elephants!) last night at the wonderful Odyssey Bookshop. I can’t wait to read it.
2. Margaret Atwood’s rules of writing
3. A great project and important resource: An open-source conscious style guide
4. Two great mail art projects–Dear Data and Puzzles for Postmen
5. T Magazine shows writers in their workspaces

Final Friday Five

Readings for February:

1. Do early birds really get the worm?
2. Designing a new classic for India
3. One guy fixed the same error on Wikipedia 47,000 times… but was it worth it?
4. One woman opens up about the finances behind her writing life
5. “Just checking in”–anxiety-producing emails care of two editors

Final Friday Five

First link pack of 2015–enjoy!

1. A new method for teaching math to people who think they hate math
2. I took a snow day on Tuesday, but some weren’t so lucky.
3. How to sleep in productively
4. Faking it ’til they make it: Charles Simic and Mark Strand thought they were “short-order cooks who kept trying to pass themselves off as poets”
5. How to ruin a date with an academic

Final Friday Five

Some reading for your holiday weekend:

1. Two academic paper slip-ups that made me laugh.
2. A reading spreadsheet even geekier than mine!
3. Does writing something down make you forget it?
4. An easy way to match fonts for your website
5. Two poems that made me feel better: “Inexorable Deities” (Edgar Lee Masters) and “Thanks” (W.S. Merwin)

Happy every day!

Final Friday Five

This month’s links:

1. A great roundup from the NYPL of authorly advice
2. What happens when you stop writing?
3. An A–X list from the copy chief of Random House of common word mixups. (I encountered the P example 112! times in a recent text. I now feel fairly confident that I know the rule.)
4. Prioritizing made a little easier though a “Don’t Wanna” flowchart
5. The dangers of corporate spirituality

Happy Halloween!