So, I've written fifteen thousand words this week. And that's forty-five thousand words over three weeks...which is rather incredible to me. Just a few months ago, I would have set a goal like that and utterly failed. I'd have beaten myself up over the failure, more...

My baseball team, the Oakland A's, are in first place today. This is exciting, because nobody saw this coming at the beginning of the season, not even me. We've languished for a number of years after trading away our best (and impendingly expensive) players after...

Man, my morning routine is SO important to my productivity. I'm not sure exactly when that happened, but it's true. If I let myself get distracted and go off the rails in the morning, I have a really, reeeaalllyyy hard time getting myself back on track. That happened...