Every so often you run into a project that is just horrible, stressful all out of proportion to its actual importance (usually); something that must be done, but you just can’t do. Here’s my strategy for tacking intractable problems, for what it’s worth: 1. Get out a pen and paper. 2. Title at top: To-Do [...]
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A linking we will go…
Catch-up on a few things I’ve collected: The business of writing essays for other people. For them to learn from, of course: no one would actually turn these in under a false name. Right? Right. Citizen science: how interested amateurs can contribute to scientific understanding. Think of it as distributed science – a whole bunch [...]
Comics and creativity
I’m reading through the FreakAngels back issues right now. Damn. How did I miss this, and what am I going to do when I’m caught up and forced to wait a whole week for the next issue just like everyone else? [And incidentally, this sort of thing is exactly why I needed to start a [...]
