...Story Ends, Technicals Begin...

• Instead of continuously and tirelessly working, create short bursts of intense activity tailored to your work, followed by rest and recovery.
• While taking breaks is looked down upon, this is when the actual productivity of the brain starts to happen, when it is left to think indepe...

“Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang. This short story is the basis for the 2016 movie Arrival, and I think it’s a lot better than the film adaptation. It’s a slowly unfolding story about loss and cherishing the time you have with people; as soon as I finished it, I reread it immediately. You can f...

Shortly after 335 B.C., Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote a short treatise where he proposed that literature was many inventions, each constructed from an innovative use of story.

He suggested that the elements in a story could plug into our imagination, emotions,...