My new writing desk
In my garage office I have a standing desk (actually a shelf in my Ikea bookcase). Most of the time it's awesome, but sometimes I do like to
My new ebook: Rest in the World: My Morning Routine
I have a new ebook out: Rest in the World: My Morning Routine. When you write a book, there are stories that you can't fit into the book, but
A note on morning routines
In REST I had a chapter about why people are more creative in the morning, and here I've continued writing about morning routines and their importance in creative
John Cleese, Graham Wallas, and preparation for insight
Monty Python's John Cleese has given a number of talks over the years about creativity. Today runner and academic Peter Francis tweeted out a link to a talk Cleese gave that
New article on the history of spontaneous thought
Later this year Oxford University Press is publishing The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought, edited by Kieran Fox and Kalina Christoff. I have a chapter on the history of
“a routine was essential for the prose writing”
Poet Jacob Polley in The Guardian about his routine and the differences between writing prose and poetry:
Martin Lindstrom: “I’ve literally written all my books while swimming”
Thrive Global, Ariana Huffington's new enterprise, has an interview with Martin Lindstrom (whose biography describes him as a "Change Agent. Brand Futurist. Bestselling Author.") that touches on exercise, boredom,
The alchemy of publishing
So this showed up in my timeline this morning: REST by @askpang came in last week! Design, #lettering and #illustration, plus inspired some changes to my creative practice.
Imported contemplative computing posts
Clowns of Cambridge, where I first started thinking about rest while working on contemplative computing I spent a little time this morning and imported posts from my contemplative
My next book, REST, is off to the presses
This weekend I finished reviewing the index and page proofs of my next book, REST. It now goes off to the printer, and the next time I see