Final Friday Five

Some reading for you now. And stay tuned for this year’s gift guide for editors! (See last year’s guide here.)

1. I love this project
2. I would’ve loved to be the person to find this
3. Authors and their Myers-Briggs types
4. On flowers and grief
5. Further proof that mail is good for you

Final Friday Five – Double Edition!

I missed September’s Final Friday (for secret reasons), so this month you get a double edition! Happy reading.

1. I like the sweetness and mystery of the Book Inscriptions Project
2. This made me laugh
3. The holidays (and holiday cards) are right around the corner. Do you know how to pluralize your name?
4. An excellent post promoting feedback between authors, project managers, and editors
5. Re-imagining the New Yorker as a Parisian rag
6. Are you an artful procrastinator?
7. What books make it big in Nigeria?
8. Book covers come to life
9. Oliver Sacks and his desk
10. I once did a version of this with Roget’s Thesaurus

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