Seneca said a good way to know whether something is worth pursuing is whether it has an endpoint.

My journal entries from last year read like a narrated chore list:

9 things I learned from Don’t Call It Art about making bad art, wasting things, and finding my creative energy again

9 things I learned from Don’t Call It Art about making bad art, wasting things, and finding my creative energy again

On letting go so you can keep going

I changed up my reading plan this year: fewer books, more time with each one—wrestling with the ideas instead of just collecting them.

A few weeks ago, my wife, Courtney, stabbed herself.

Look at your fish