Finishing things. Writing sessions that produce pages, the difference between drafting and editing, and what it takes to hold a book together start to finish.
Book WritingI've quit dozens of books at the outline, the middle and the finished first draft. When to abandon a writing project, how to tell a slump from a dead book, and why you should keep every manuscript you stop.
AI AdoptionWhen a commercial tool annoys me, I build my own with Claude. My booking system took 44 versions and one bug silently threw away bookings, and the habits I learned from it apply to any writer or small business owner.
DelegationMy method for hiring a virtual assistant is blunt: do the task yourself first, write a script, hand it over, and keep replacing VAs until one can follow it. The script does most of the work.
Critique GroupsA writing buddy can be the difference between a finished draft and another abandoned one. Why it never worked for me as an introvert, how to find a good one, and the rules that make it work.
Book DesignMost novelists write in Word, and I do too. The free alternatives, when Scrivener or NovelCrafter is worth it, whether to handwrite the first draft, and which tools format a novel for print.
ADHDSocial media feeds hold attention the way a hypnotist holds a subject: steady rhythm, no stopping point, and a reward just often enough to keep you under. The people who built them said so, and in 2026 a jury agreed.…
AIClaude only helps as much as you let it. Give it the real details, then run six prompts in order in one conversation, from finding the cause of a problem to picking one move for the next 24 hours.
AI WritingEvery productivity claim measures the same thing. The interesting category is the work nobody ever attempted, because the alternative was not a slower version. It was nothing.
Book ReviewsSurgeons with decades of experience fought against a two-minute checklist that cut surgical deaths. Their resistance reveals something bigger: why capable people refuse the simplest fixes, and why that matters in almost every field where complex work gets done.
Book ReviewsMost people think ideas are the hard part. Belsky spent six years watching creative teams and found the opposite: everyone has ideas, almost nobody finishes them, and the gap has nothing to do with talent. He built a system to…
AI and Your CareerOrganizational systems architect Georgie-Ann Getton on the story you tell yourself, setting goals as a floor rather than a ceiling, and the morning she missed a turn and realized she had forgotten she could turn around.
Character DevelopmentPeople say they are too busy to exercise, too tired to cook, too overwhelmed to read and too stressed to see friends. Then they watch four hours of Netflix. Something does not add up.
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