[Marginalia] Imperfection as the Strength of a Work
In this re-thinking of an item I wrote several years ago, we’ll examine some reasons you should embrace imperfection in your work.
[TfTi] Your Book Will Not Be Perfect
Lessons from Chip Conley, Maria Popova, and Seth Godin combine to help your book be flawsome!
Marginalia: The Power of Paradox and Fiction as Truth
A paradox mindset helps creativity, teamwork, leadership, self-efficacy, perspective, and resilience; and how fiction shows us truth.
Marginalia: AI, self-driving cars, and the delusion of perfection
Marginalia: on Matthew Crawford’s book, Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road. It might not be apparent from the title, but the two themes that keep jumping out at me are the dangers in our headlong rush toward applying AI to everything and the problem of perfectionism.
Celebrating International Bestsellers + Can You Say, ‘I am Flawsome?’
Writing the book is really just the beginning. If you ask any author what the hardest part of their book project was, most of them […]
Marginalia: 25 Perfectionism Quotes that Probably Won’t Make It into Our New Book
Teachings on perfectionism, imperfection, good enough, and why we need to practice flawsomism in our work, play, and lives.
Page Layout: Designing for Marginalia
How — and more importantly, WHY — should your book be designed for marginalia? And what are the two flavors of marginalia to be accommodated?
Top 5 Reasons You Must Embrace Imperfection in Your Work
わ び さ び (wabi-sabi) The Japanese phrase wabi-sabi means to celebrate imperfection. It’s connected to the art form called kintsugi, or “golden repair” – in which broken […]