I’m currently working on the creative work for my thesis. It’s a theatrical work, with both a script and music which accompanies this script. It’s my first time scriptwriting, and it’s something I’m really enjoying. The problem is, I’m adapting a sequence of real-life events – a “based on a true story” type script. And […]
I’ll be honest: no-one reads this blog. Maybe you are, right now, reading these words. But I have access to the numbers, and I can tell you: no-one is reading this blog. Or at least, that’s how it feels. Because of course, some people read this blog: just not many, not many at all. Less […]
On Thursday, I hit a personal record — 5000 words written in a day. On Thursday, I backed this up with another 4000 words. I’ve been trying to finish a chapter of my thesis before I leave for conferences in Europe — I quite like this as a deadline, as it means I won’t feel […]
If you haven’t heard of context switching, it’s the concept that moving between tasks diminishes overall output. For example, if you’re trying to write something (an essay, report, etc.) and then check emails, you’ve context-switched: you have moved from the context of writing something to the context of scrolling through emails. This shift results in […]
It’s been a couple of years now since AI really took off, with ChatGPT becoming this widespread, easily available tool available for free* (of course, with ourselves being the product) for people to use. Although early reactions to AI were – and continue to be – mixed, I also find it hard not to believe […]
You’ve probably heard of David Allen’s Getting Things Done philosophy, which (very broadly) states that the brain was not built to remember things, and so we should use other systems (to-do lists, etc.) to help keep track of all the things we need to do. It is probably one of the most mainstream and fundamental […]