Are you someone who requires to set the alarm every five minutes for about an hour before you can actually get out of bed? Have you missed important assignments and turned up late to meetings because you kept snoozing your alarm phone? Are you tired of waking up tired and have developed serious hate for…
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5 Steps to Building A Daily Study Habit
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a student or not. Learning something new every day is a great way to work out your brain muscles and keep yourself mentally agile all through life. But this is easier said than done, especially if you’re someone who didn’t enjoy studying much in school. This post discusses five steps…
Productive Habits: an Interview with Carla Sinclair
Carla Sinclair is editor of Wink, co-founder of Boing Boing and is the author of four books. She was the editor-in-chief of Craft magazine, and then later Craft online. Her career spans everything from the golden age of print zines and Factsheet Five to the current world of web publishing. Sinclair is one of our…
Productive Habits: an Interview with Mark Frauenfelder
Where technology and intelligent counterculture meet, you will find Mark Frauenfelder. Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing, the founding editor-in-chief of MAKE, editor-in-chief of Cool Tools and co-founder of Wink Books. He’s also an author, illustrator and maker; his latest book is Maker Dad: Lunch Box Guitars, Antigravity Jars, and 22 Other Incredibly…
Resilient Activism and Productive Writing: the Habits of Derrick Jensen
Photograph by Dawn Paley. Derrick Jensen is the award-winning author of over 20 books and has written for Orion, Audubon, The Sun, and many other magazines. Jensen makes a compelling argument that civilization is inherently unsustainable: “To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is…
Writing Habits of a Cyborg: an Interview with Gareth Branwyn
“Don’t be afraid to just get your thoughts out there. Unvarnished. Don’t fear the blank page. You can edit what comes out into something usable.” Gareth Branwyn tells people he’s a cyborg, and he’s not kidding: decades of medical procedures have made him part man, part machine. But that’s not terribly unique. Lots of people…