Category: distractions

If you want insight or new ideas, you’ll need to keep generating them yourself.

Ketamine was discovered in 1956 and was used as an anesthetic during the war in Viet Nam. It’s been used to relieve refractory pain in hospital patients, and more recently, for chronic pain. It’s also been used to treat suicidal thoughts, and in the past few years, has begun to …

Now that we’ve been in isolation for three weeks (more or less), I’m feeling the pressure to be online social even more. Before COVID-19, I could say, “I don’t do social media,” and people accepted it. Now, social media is the only way to communicate—ok, not the only way, but …

I’m not sure what gets into me, sometimes. I was browsing around The Internets and noticed that the DI Style Manual, the CIA’s guide to excruciatingly precise writing, has been made available by the legal nonprofit National Security Counselors, following a Freedom of Information Act* request. So I OCR-scanned it …

Ezra Adams was 83 when he told a Works Progress Administration interviewer about his time on the plantation of Lawrence Adams. He was clearly a writer who missed his time. Here’s an excerpt: “I ain’t going to say a word of evil against their dust lying over yonder in their …

I am struggling with a decision. Do I continue working a difficult temporary job or quit and devote myself to a technical book I’m writing with David, a novel I need to send out again, one I need to finish,  one I need to get going on, and a non-fiction …