Productivity Killed by its Own Worshippers

The perversion of productivity, intuition, and 27 thoughts on blogging for the artist, don't miss this one. None of this is brain-surgery. In fact, nothing is brain-surgery except -- brain-surgery. Are you lifehacking too much? Productivity is dead! Long live living! The other side of productivity: Coincidences, synchronicity, and serendipity. Intuition. The problem with infinitely optimized and worshipped productivity is that it's all too easy to cover up coincidences, synchronicity, and serendipity out of fear of becoming less than serious. In the same spirit of bringing things back in perspective, consider these 27 thoughts on blogging for the artist -- If you're the real thing, you'll be around in 30 years, still working. Most of these services and sites you now admire will not. You do not need a signed letter from The American Academy of Arts and Letters to begin. Blogging is easy. Art is not. Exactly. Each and every one of them. Read them all. Now, go out and please don't let things happen to you but instead, make sure that you happen to things. Related Items Integrate Life, The Renaissance Way Free ebook Peer pressure, vanity and behavior, motivation tricks and hacks, success and pain, and how to excel, Celebrate Your Beauty.