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Author Mary Childs shares some of her “stress-designed” drafts: On Trying (and Really Failing) to Design My Own Book Cover. “It’s a miracle any cover is ever good.” I absolutely love seeing the ideation taken to arrive at a book cover design. I’m a designer myself, and have

Listening to a recent episode of Connected, I loved the discussion about saving things to read later. At one point a host (maybe Stephen) asked in aghast what Myke would do if he lost an article by unsaving it in his RSS reader or bookmarking app. Myke’s response was

Do you publish immediately after writing, or do you let it simmer a bit as a draft? Immediately. If I don’t get a post out in the second it feels important then I know it’ll languish in drafts forever. I’ve often looked back on a note though

Do you use the same password for every service? Or maybe you have an easy-to-remember formula for each one — something like the name of the service with the vowels replaced by numbers? Those passwords are easy to guess and break into. It’s time to install a password manager. I’

So to correct the record, I don’t necessarily believe in drafts either. It’s where stuff goes that I would rather see published, if it weren’t lacking in one or more ways. Because I’m with Wouter here: get your ideas out there into the world. I’ve

The past is a place, but the present is where life flows. It’s sad but you got to move on. I try to think about the past with a smile. It’s nice to think on the past, but where we are and where we’re going matters. We

Everyone is making it up to some extent. This is the secret I didn’t learn until years into my career. I often thought I was the only one in the room who didn’t know what was going on, and was in awe of the geniuses always surrounding me.