I’ll never forget the hours I spent as an undergraduate in the fall I began my thesis, wandering the aisles of the Staples near my college, picking out a giant 3-ring binder (in which to store the research articles I printed out), packs of index cards (on which to write summaries of each article), and a little recipe card box to organize them (this was genuinely my system. Did I think I was living in 1979? It was 2002!).

TL;DR: Buy the thing that’s going to make your life easier; invest in yourself, your comfort, and your success

When it comes to writing, people feel a great deal of shame around not doing it. There are many reasons why writing doesn’t necessarily receive our best time: it can feel hard, the rewards associated with it are delayed, there’s no one sitting right in front of us expecting us to write (whereas it can seem like there is no end of people knocking on our proverbial doors with requests for our time). The good news is that a small series of conscious shifts is often enough to all

Believe in magic? How could we not?