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Make your writing workflow frictionless if you want to blog more. That means eliminating every additional step between your thoughts and the words on the editor. Intending a new post should take you directly to a blinking cursor. I lacked that with my default blog platform, which has been bothering
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I have been writing a lot less recently, predominantly because I have to make a choice about where to write. Any hindrance between a thought and the place to put it down kills the post for me. So many posts have died a violent death in this urge to choose.
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I have been going through a lull phase on this blog. I am writing sporadically, queuing up a lot of drafts but hardly publishing any. Am I going through another writer's block? I doubt I am. Instead, I am just being lazy. I recently heard Javed Akhtar talk
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I have always loved the On This Day feature on my blog. But the fact that I had to visit it every day defeated the purpose of refreshing a page with posts from the past. It is for me to know what I was thinking back in time. I often
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After being sick for over a week, I feel slightly better today, allowing me to catch up on the stuff I am interested in. This period of slight calm was after multiple consultations and blood tests. Thankfully, every test came out negative. My illness turned out to be a severe
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I love to read about people's writing workflows and get inspired by their choice of tools to capture thoughts. At the same time, I have a very simple workflow for publishing my posts. I write the thoughts quickly and save them as a draft. I then come back
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I am a coder and a writer. And it is excruciating to have these two conflicting personalities live within me. When the coder wants to code, the writer checks his choice of words, the structure of comments, or the depth of documentation—the writer wants the coder to write an
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As much as I should avoid hopping across blogging platforms, I often do it almost yearly. Here's what I had written about seven years ago, which is applicable even today. It is August. I like to think I am a writer. Somewhere deep down, I also know, though,
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I knew the two conditions were different—the latter has an unhappy connotation—but I could never explain exactly why. Until I read this quote by Kent Nerburn, which brilliantly sums up how they differ. Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is
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Interviews with celebrities are fascinating, but not for the questions they are asked about their craft. Even though the answers are insightful, they are too polished most often. They lack crudeness and, hence, authenticity. On the other hand, random, personal questions on likings, habits, and anecdotes catch the celebrities off-guard.
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I love buffet meals because I can decide what and how much I want on my plate. I serve myself only a few items and go through them, a section at a time. Some I would not touch, and some I would eat a couple of times during the same
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Many folks have recently written about politics and its impact on communities. Though I generally avoid talking about politics, this question from Manu piqued my interest—should you keep some topics off of online communities, specifically social platforms? I say, why not? After all, social media is a resource, just