Two crappy pages to two (hundred) crappy pages. And 98 other posts in between. I want to have a place hold the 100 posts as I continue adding more to the site. This page has the posts in categories.
Japan Trip
I started the 100 days by posting twice and then getting behind by about 14 days to go on a trip to Japan with my girlfriend. The trip also gave me a good amount to write about.
- Japan Trip 1 of 10: Five quick thoughts
- Japan Trip 2 of 10: DIY Mos Burger
- Japan Trip 3 of 10: Airplane food
- Japan Trip 4 of 10: As seen on TV
- Japan Trip 5 of 10: Ramen
- Japan Trip 6 of 10: Five more thoughts
- Japan Trip 7 of 10: Cheap eats
- Japan Trip 8 of 10: Rico! Osprey!
- Japan Trip 9 of 10: Tsukiji Market5
- Japan Trip 10 of 10: More As Seen on TV
Book Notes in parts
I wrote a couple posts as parts. The idea here was that I could write one-off notes as I went along. I was trying to do three posts with a single excerpt and more of my own commentary.
- Book note on 10% Happier
- Book note on Comedy Writing for Late Night TV
- Book note on Comedy Writing: Semi-scripted
- Book note on Comedy Writing: Sketches
- Book note on Ego is the Enemy
- Book note on Grit: Hard work beats talent
- Book note on Grit: Quitting
- Book note on Grit: Warren Buffet’s goals
- Book note on Infinite Jest: Quality
- Book note on Originals: Quantity
- Book note on Spoiled Brats: Write lots of jokes
- Book note on Sprint
- Book note on The Creative Habit: Excuses
- Stray book notes
Book Notes
These are the full book notes I wrote for different books. The goal was usually to have single posts with five excerpts and commentary.
- Book Notes: 59 Seconds
- Book Notes: Anything You Want
- Book Notes: Bird by Bird
- Book Notes: Choose Yourself!
- Book Notes: Creative Confidence
- Book Notes: Happy Money
- Book Notes: Mindless Eating
- Book Notes: On Writing Well
- Book Notes: Save the Cat
- Book Notes: Smartcuts
- Book Notes: Spark Joy
- Book Notes: Technical Blogging
- Book Notes: The Choose Yourself Guide to Wealth
- Book Notes: The Miracle Morning for Writers
- Book Notes: The Miracle of Morning Pages
- Book Notes: The Serious Guide to Joke Writing
- Book Notes: Write Every Day
- Book Notes: You are a Writer
Writing
A lot of the things I wrote were about writing. And about blogging and this project itself. Navel gazing. Still, I think there’s value because it was at least a small step up from recalling the day’s events. And I’ve read and enjoyed plenty of other people writing about writing and blogging about blogging.
I wrote a couple posts as stray notes. The idea here was that I could write one-off notes as I went along.
- A Writing Idea
- At Dunkin Donuts
- Brain vomit
- Creativity is like breathing — Oatmeal
- Focus
- On writing daily, style, and clarity
- Only emotion endures
- Seth Godin and Stephen King’s pencil
- Sort of about affirmations
- Trying to publish daily: Writing isn’t intro
- Two (hundred) crappy pages
- Two crappy pages
- Who and how?
- Writing at: Bryant Park
- Writing isn’t: Publishing
- Writing isn’t: Sort of writing
- Writing isn’t: Those other things
Friday Links
Heavily inspired, mostly stolen from Tim Ferriss. I wanted a weekly post that was heavily structured so I wouldn’t have to think. Find four links and this would write itself.
A lot of times, these took the longest to write. The links I gathered were usually good to read through again and then I’d go read other stuff from the author and on and on. I guess a better description would be that these were the hardest to focus on.
I also think they’re a great place to start to get a sense of what topics I’m interested in.
Sunday Journal
I was writing about writing a little too much and it was seeping into every post. Toward the end I tried to be more conscious of this and moved these thoughts to journal posts.
I usually wrote about something I heard in a podcast. Major major navel gazing. When I do send out a newsletter, I suspect it’ll be some mix of Friday Links posts and Sunday Journal posts.
Design
When I started, I wanted to deliberately avoid writing about design. Then I wanted to do some design exercises to see how I could improve this blog before sharing it with others. Then I thought it’d be good to share that process and wrote a few posts.
In all that, I remembered I enjoy writing about design. It’s probably because writing about design process means I can create content by sketching or playing in Keynote instead of strictly writing.
Misc.
I wrote about other random things: running, things I’m using, podcast notes, meditation, food, and more.
- Beginning meditation
- Couch to 5K: Sessions 1-6
- Docs to Jekyll
- I ordered a Chromebook — first impressions
- Magic: The Gathering R&D Principles
- Meditation: Take Ten
- Muji paper magazine notebook mini
- Per Se
- Stray thoughts: 4K Monitor
- Teaching one thing at a time
- Very Fresh Noodles and other pictures from the week
- Washington Square Park
- What would this look like if it were easy?
- Why didn’t I start doing this sooner — HN
- James Altucher podcast: Gary Gulman and better, same, and worse
- Obvious to you, amazing to others
- All the books I’ve read this year
- Directives and applying what you read