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Found another bookstore with soul. The owner and his wife scour estate sales every weekend looking for unusual used books. The place is a veritable mess, (which I love) and the collection here is sublime. 📍Delphine Street Books, New Orleans.

The sneaky bottleneck to producing good writing quickly is how you sequence and prioritize different levels of editing. You can lose months focusing on prose when you should have been focusing on story.

Remember that you are no one and nothing so go ahead and have fun because none of this matters and no one is really watching anyway.

you are not an introvert you just haven't found nervous system-environment fit

We did it! We tested 300 Bay Area foods for plastic chemicals. We found some interesting surprises. Top 5 findings in our test results: 1. Our tests found plastic chemicals in 86% of all foods, with phthalates in 73% of the tested products and bisphenols in 22%. It's

I left Austin. Left tech. And escaped to the mountains. Here's my wild, and vulnerably honest 2024 recap. madisontaskett.com/2024-recap-cop…

For lasting change in 2025: we can only do small amounts of hard work/day - Hard work = anything that's not already routine - Add 1-2 habits each month, in bite-sized daily amounts Read 👇 'How a Lazy Bitch Like me Learned to be Productive' (30k+ reads) madisontaskett.com/lazy-bastard-p…

I'm going off of twitter for all of January. See you guys later :)

Took a month break from X, and man is this site triggering. I woke up this morning in a small town thinking, 'I am living my dream life'. Got a pastry and coffee, drove to the middle of nowhere, and collected sparkly rocks for hours, sunshine on my face. Then return to X and

Close to 1,000 of you read my 2024 recap, which is crazy for such a personal piece. I'm touched that it resonated so deeply!

I turned 40 last week, here are 40 reflections I wrote down... On Change & Transformation 1. Blowing up my life and walking away from a successful career to embark on something much more uncertain was the most important decision in my 30s. It led to so many great things. At the

Bukowski spent 10 years (his mid 20s-30s) lost in a drunken stupor, accomplishing nothing. It was after this, that he went on to become one of the most influential American poets of his age. It's never too late.

The 6 types of stories: SV 1. Rags to riches (rise) SV 2. Man in a hole (fall-rise) SV 3. Cinderella (rise-fall-rise) -(SV 1) Riches to rags (fall) -(SV 2) Icarus (rise-fall) -(SV 3) Oedipus (fall-rise-fall) My sci-fi book looks like a SV 2: man in a hole, but Claude INSISTS

being discerning is the gift you give to community. it means having guests when you have energy to connect. it means setting clear expectations with housemates. it means showing up for events where you truly add value. it means facing conflicts instead of burying feelings.

I loved being a beta reader for this phenomenal book, and can't wait for it to arrive on my doorstep tomorrow morning! The path to a better life is as simple as running tiny experiments. Congratulations Anne-Laure!

I committed to monkhood. Now I’m selling The Ultimate Sales Machine. I wasn’t planning on announcing my monkhood until after the sale… but then I realized I was hiding. And if I’m truly committed to finding the right steward for my family’s legacy, I can’t hold back now. For