“Productivity”

John Cage on the true meaning of discipline

I've been thinking about it all wrong.

Jun 10 •

Totally insane and truly helpful

The best creativity advice I've read in ages—plus, enroll now in Worm School Extension 🪱🎓

May 13 •

The Fassbinder Method

“So: completion come what may.”

Dec 16, 2024 •

The Complete Worm School

My summer course on wriggling through a creative life has now concluded—read the entire series here.

Jul 23, 2024 •

Writing is bouldering, bouldering is writing

On “eking out a delicate gift laboriously”

Apr 1, 2024 •

The dumbest and best productivity trick

And why I’m rebelling against it anyway

Dec 11, 2023 •

Samuel Johnson and the art of procrastination

Or how to write 1,800 words an hour

May 30, 2023 •

Three tales of creative slowness

“A week is nothing, one thinks one can do so much in a week”

Apr 3, 2023 •

Three tales of creative incompetence

Plus: Advice on sharing your work

Mar 7, 2022 •

Really good writing advice from Slavoj Žižek

How to make writing disappear!

Nov 22, 2021 •

“If work comes easily, it is suspect”

On David Salle, Janet Malcolm, and feeling like you’re doing everything wrong

Jul 12, 2021 •

Carl Jung on the importance of taking a break

A special Labor Day issue of Subtle Maneuvers

Sep 7, 2020 •

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