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1. A Modest Guide to Productivity – Frank Chimero May 2, 2018
2. How I Got My Attention Back – Backchannel February 5, 2017
3. The Scrying Game — Real Life August 31, 2016
4. Even Superheroes Punch the Clock - The New York Times August 29, 2016
5. Structured Procrastination: Do Less & Deceive Yourself December 16, 2015
6. Leveling both sides of the playing field December 9, 2015
7. StrengthsFinder 2.0 February 8, 2015
8. Pinboard Turns Five (Pinboard Blog) July 11, 2014
9. When you’re younger, you need to say yes to everything July 11, 2014
10. Doubt is what drives me, the nervousness that I don’t have it anymore May 12, 2014
11. Demons Hate Fresh Air May 7, 2014
12. This column will change your life: stop being busy April 21, 2014
13. The Great Discontent: Austin Kleon April 6, 2014
14. Frank Chimero - Three Things to Say March 20, 2014
15. Life is a game. This is your strategy guide February 23, 2014
16. The Risks Worth Taking - Austin Kleon February 23, 2014
17. Kanye West January 21, 2014
18. Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man September 16, 2013
19. 94-year-old’s business card September 2, 2013
20. Who Will Prosper in the New World - NYTimes.com September 1, 2013
21. Study Hacks » The Need for a Deeper Vocabulary of Career Aspiration July 8, 2013
22. Frank Chimero × Blog × Web Tableaus June 30, 2013
23. THE MINUTE I GET HOME FROM WORK June 28, 2013
24. Over the fireplace in the first house my parents owned together June 1, 2013
25. Life Lessons with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar May 2, 2013
26. Tim Brando, Chris Broussard, and giving credit where credit is due - SBNation.com May 1, 2013
27. It got to me when someone asked what I did for a living April 30, 2013
28. Doug Bowman: “The Wired office when I joined, in 1996” April 17, 2013
29. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy April 1, 2013
30. The Barbed Gift of Leisure - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education March 26, 2013
31. Find the thing you’re most passionate about, then do it on nights and weekends March 21, 2013
32. Creative People Say No — Thoughts on creativity — Medium March 21, 2013
33. Changing your operating system | Derek Sivers March 18, 2013
34. Zoe’s Desk | Submitted For Your Perusal February 17, 2013
35. The Deadliest Jobs In America, In One Graphic : Planet Money : NPR January 23, 2013
36. Paris Review – CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: Preface, George Saunders January 17, 2013
37. Every kid wants to rebel against their parents January 13, 2013
38. Don't Go to Business School! - The Daily Beast January 9, 2013
39. The one time I got a bunch of prizes, I just assumed I’d win them all December 23, 2012
40. “I don’t know how I’m finna do this shit again” November 14, 2012
41. The secret is that the shit is fun to me November 14, 2012
42. Festina lente - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia November 5, 2012
43. Study Hacks » Blog Archive » The Joys and Sorrows of Deep Work October 25, 2012
44. Love Like Cosima - The Barnes & Noble Review September 27, 2012
45. The Sad Secular Monks | First Things August 29, 2012
46. In-Use: FF Quadraat in ‘The Shape of Design’ – An interview with Frank Chimero July 25, 2012
47. The Believer - Beat Boutique July 2, 2012
48. The Service Patch - NYTimes.com June 17, 2012
49. What you’ve never done is what you’ll need to learn for your business May 22, 2012
50. Why do you always sit in the same place in meetings? - Barking up the wrong tree May 20, 2012
51. I quit my advertising job so I could go to the movies every afternoon May 14, 2012
52. Making a choice and trying it is an important career skill May 9, 2012
53. People who are smart and energetic are often angry May 6, 2012
54. Blake Masters: Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 5 Notes Essay April 22, 2012
55. How to Avoid Burnout: Marissa Mayer - Businessweek April 18, 2012
56. Your biggest career decision is who you marry | Penelope Trunk Blog April 18, 2012
57. The Top Idea in Your Mind April 12, 2012
58. When to leave grad school off your resume | Penelope Trunk Blog April 11, 2012
59. Perception vs. Reality. An excerpt from The Start-up of You April 9, 2012
60. Are You As Busy As You Think? - WSJ.com February 24, 2012
61. Young Jeezy - Hustlaz Ambition February 22, 2012
62. What Facebook's IPO means for women | Penelope Trunk Blog February 8, 2012
63. The point isn’t to achieve everything February 6, 2012
64. I was always somebody January 27, 2012
65. Do your work for six years; in the seventh, go into solitude January 23, 2012
66. Every time I come to work I feel like I’m starting a second life January 6, 2012
67. Louis CK Q&A - JonahWeiner.com January 6, 2012
68. Being cheerful is really no recipe to get down to work: nothing happens until… December 15, 2011
69. I don’t give a fuck if you’re doin’ petty shit or big shit December 1, 2011
70. When we say, “What do you do?” we really mean what do you learn? November 12, 2011
71. Idler Q&A (3) | HiLobrow November 2, 2011
72. By seven everyone is gone October 27, 2011
73. Overcoming Bias : ‘Never Settle’ Is A Brag October 14, 2011
74. If you don’t take money, they can’t tell you what to do September 24, 2011
75. We cannot bear toil or pleasure or ourselves or anything very long September 12, 2011
76. It is weariness upon the same things to labor and by them to be controlled September 12, 2011
77. Against Vacation | Front Porch Republic August 22, 2011
78. The medium chill | Grist August 4, 2011
79. Most of my days involve four- and five-hour stretches of what I would… July 22, 2011
80. The better part of my work on media is actually somewhat like… July 4, 2011
81. Chris Rock: Job vs. Career June 30, 2011
82. You can tell if it’s your own plan by how lost you feel June 27, 2011
83. Portrait Of The Bagel As A Young Man June 24, 2011
84. — A. E. Housman May 30, 2011
85. I take [my work] less seriously than anybody May 23, 2011
86. I am angry and curious May 17, 2011
87. In a hundred different ways, we have slowly marginalized an entire category… May 16, 2011
88. THE NEW YORKER: Barry Michels’s & Phil Stutz’ Therapy Drawings April 21, 2011
89. Legal disclaimers: Spare us the e-mail yada-yada | The Economist April 14, 2011
90. AUSTIN KLEON: Don't discard. Keep all your pieces in play. February 25, 2011
91. Getting a job decreases the amount of work it takes to live February 9, 2011
92. They get one letter from me every couple of years December 1, 2010
93. Wehr in the World: Fear of death in the workplace November 27, 2010
94. I have to look them in the eye and decide whether they love the business… November 23, 2010
95. We do not bring in compensation consultants and we don’t have a human… November 14, 2010
96. Office, Why Do You Persecute Me? November 10, 2010
97. You don’t have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich – just a bit better… November 3, 2010
98. Coffee Break: A 1958 Film About Lost Time in the Workplace October 1, 2010
99. When I Grow Up: Kids' Dream Jobs - Forbes.com September 21, 2010
100. Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they… September 9, 2010
101. David Grady: The Conference Call September 2, 2010
102. The real risk is in not changing September 2, 2010
103. “You Want a Social Life, With Friends” by Kenneth Koch August 26, 2010
104. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year’s answer might not do… July 29, 2010
105. “Work,” by John Engman, from Temporary Help July 29, 2010
106. Family, Friends, Health, Work: Pick Any Three July 22, 2010
107. The Fallacy Of Success - G. K. Chesterton July 8, 2010
108. Ben Casnocha: The Blog: How to Get Hired July 2, 2010
109. Whenever an artist has been able to say, “I came, I saw, I conquered,” it has… June 15, 2010
110. Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy… June 1, 2010
111. Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing May 12, 2010
112. Why Do Harvard Kids Head to Wall Street? « The Baseline Scenario May 11, 2010
113. Money is like gasoline during a road trip May 8, 2010
114. The life I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment for the balance… April 14, 2010
115. Don’t say you don’t have enough time March 26, 2010
116. Working Methods - Art - Lapham’s Quarterly March 25, 2010
117. Sext by W.H. Auden March 24, 2010
118. My Year Of Everything: My Year Of Everything Q&A: With Kevin Murphy, Author of "A Year At The Movies" March 23, 2010
119. Day jobs of famous writers March 17, 2010
120. What you have to find is your own niche that will allow you to keep feeding… March 9, 2010
121. Working: The Graphic Novel - Bryan Caplan | EconLog March 9, 2010
122. People say you teach during the day and you’re free at so-and-so, but there’s… February 25, 2010
123. Work hard, play hardly « Variations on normal by Dominic Wilcox February 25, 2010
124. Men Without Work | Mother Jones February 10, 2010
125. Most intellectual failures, people who are smart but still don’t succeed, tend… February 4, 2010
126. Not every end is a goal January 28, 2010
127. The Internet Blurs Serious and Playful Thoughts January 11, 2010
128. Trevor Clark ( @trevorclark), a guy I knew back in the old high school days… November 3, 2009
129. Bob Sutton: Selecting Talent: The Upshot from 85 Years of Research October 26, 2009
130. To the Audience October 9, 2009
131. Being Individuals in an Increasingly Individualistic Culture September 29, 2009
132. Success guide: 1 August 28, 2009
133. Dan Pink’s TED Talk on Motivation August 26, 2009
134. A graph showing various vacation allotments and an interesting discussion… August 4, 2009
135. Fun fact: I have a podcast July 27, 2009
136. David Foster Wallace, on success July 22, 2009
137. Will Smith: The Keys to Life = Running & Reading July 4, 2009
138. An economy that is more entrepreneurial, less managerial, would be less… June 23, 2009
139. Oliver Sacks’ desk June 18, 2009
140. I taught briefly in a public high school and would have loved to have set up… May 28, 2009
141. The People I Love the Best Jump into Work Head First May 28, 2009
142. Shop Class surveys an economic landscape where everyone must go to college… May 20, 2009
143. Warhol on good art vs bad art March 22, 2009
144. Why work more hours March 11, 2009
145. Doodling" may help memory recall" March 1, 2009
146. The 14-Second Work Year January 28, 2009
147. Great Opportunities Don’t Fall into Your Lap January 19, 2009
148. Meetings are like an opiate with a network effect May 19, 2008
149. Comic strip instructions for anarchic overthrow of the office May 4, 2008
150. A list of people who worked while standing March 30, 2008
151. Shop Class as Soulcraft March 21, 2008
152. (What I learned about craftsmanship in) The Violin Maker (review: 4/5) February 4, 2008
153. Terry Gross interviewed Chuck Close a couple years ago January 11, 2008
154. A long essay on why crunch mode doesn't work December 27, 2007
155. I don't know how anyone can try to be universal December 25, 2007