Overcommitting has always been one of my weakest points when it comes to being productive. I regularly initiate, try or say yes to more than I can physically do.
So I’ve started keeping track of just how much time I spend on a given writing project in order to develop a more realistic picture of where [...]

I’ve always been really proud of [Sleeper]. It’s strange, because I’ve been in a lot of meetings in Hollywood the past few years, and every single person I meet there has read Sleeper, which was easily my worst-selling title ever.
-Ed Brubaker, interviewed by Graeme McMillan

I love the hands-off automated simplicity to personal finance that Ramit Sethi, author of I Will Teach You To Be Rich, puts forth in this post. Love it. It’s simple, elegant and would keep me from having to deal with finances very often, which for ill or good I find to be among the most [...]

My bedroom and office doors are about six inches apart at a ninety degree angle. My kitchen is all the way downstairs. I am not a morning person.
What this has meant, traditionally, is that I don’t eat breakfast. I get up, stumble a full three feet to the bathroom, then into the office, where I [...]

Because there’s no need to reinvent the wheel. Know these rules before undertaking any project, particularly if it’s a lifestyle design or productivity system one! Even if you plan on breaking them, you’ve got to know them first. Not a day goes by I don’t encounter a situation addressed by at least one of these [...]

HACK/SLASH #23
Publisher: Devil’s Due
Diamond order code: FEB094181

This issue contains the 2-page creator-owned story “Mimetic Kinetic” by myself, Russ Manning nominated artist Budi Setiawan, Eisner nominated colorist Ronda Pattison and letterer Patrick Foster. Here’s a preview:

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I turn 30 in about a month and it’s gotten me thinking about change. Which got me thinking about things like presuppositions and habits. Which made me realize how many of those I have in my life, and how many of them I take as givens.
I’m no longer willing to let faulty presuppositions and bad [...]

Well, today was that day. Time to get a haircut and shave the crazy beard. As you’ll see from tomorrow’s post, I’m in a phase of beginnings, and starting over freshly shaven felt like a good beginning. Plus I discovered that growing the beard until I finished my screenplay (as was my original purpose) actually [...]

Part of learning to better use my time (see this coming Monday’s post for details) involves learning what to stop doing. Here’s one personal project I’ve ended, but it might still be useful to you.
For a while there (the Wednesdays of 4/29, 5/6, 5/13, 5/20) I kept track of every Marvel book coming out and [...]

I’ve just recently borrowed a guitar from a friend and started teaching myself to play it. But I literally know nothing about music that doesn’t involve listening to it, so the question was where to begin?
My solution was to e-mail the 5 most skilled/talented guitar players I know personally (Tavis, Shari Short, Eddie Kaulukukui, Bob [...]