Welcome to the article archive. Here's everything I've written here on the site [almost]. Articles over the years have covered an array of topics, but more recently are related to the psychology of performance and creative expertise. Articles are grouped under these categories.
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2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015
- 14/11/23 - Cursed With A Brain
- 28/04/23 - Get To Work
- 27/04/23 - Like A Church
- 26/04/23 - Less Is More?
- 23/04/23 - Starving The Algorithm
- 13/04/23 - The Coffee Man…
- 11/04/23 - Join me on Notes
- 10/04/23 - The Machine
- 09/04/23 - Is Work Good For Us?
- 07/04/23 - Data vs Feelings
- 06/04/23 - Becoming Magnolia
- 29/03/23 - Does Anyone Really Love Anyone Else?
- 20/03/23 - A Metaphor For Life & Work
- 09/03/23 - The Pint
- 09/03/23 - Join the Sunday Letters chat
- 26/02/23 - A Monday to Friday Sort of Dying
- 29/01/23 - What It Takes To Survive
- 16/01/23 - Gimme Full Fat
- 08/01/23 - One Day Soon, You Won't Be Here
- 02/01/23 - Another Year Over, So What Now?
- 09/12/22 - Icy Morning
- 08/12/22 - Sunday Letters Gift Ideas
- 07/12/22 - What do you want to achieve in your work?
- 04/12/22 - Never Enough Time
- 04/11/22 - Friday Book Club: Carol Dweck's Mindset
- 04/11/22 - Join The New Subscriber Chat
- 10/10/22 - Reality
- 30/09/22 - It's Autumn, Thank God
- 20/09/22 - Sunday Letters Merchandise
- 13/09/22 - What do you think?
- 12/09/22 - Introduction To Peak Human Performance
- 07/09/22 - [Bonus] Beyond An Economy of Work & Spend
- 06/09/22 - 222 On The Merit of Doing Nothing
- 31/08/22 - [Bonus] Bukowski on Work
- 29/08/22 - You Abstract Working Mule of A Human
- 28/08/22 - 221 Peak Performer
- 26/08/22 - [Bonus] Implicit Bias In Children's Coaching
- 25/08/22 - 220 The Magic of Donald Thomas
- 21/08/22 - Talent: You Either Have It Or You Don't
- 18/08/22 - What work do you do?
- 14/08/22 - Sunday Letters: A Re-introduction
- 28/11/21 - How To Be An Optimist
- 21/11/21 - Bertrand Russell on Happiness & Unhappiness
- 31/10/21 - Oíche Shamhna
- 24/10/21 - Longtermism: Something You Should Know About
- 03/10/21 - How To Turn Off A Humming Fridge
- 21/02/21 - Cyclical Time
- 05/11/20 - Business or Vocation?
- 13/10/20 - More Time For What?
- 01/10/20 - On Mortality
- 28/09/20 - The Fool
- 27/09/20 - The Pursuit of Happiness Part 1
- 20/09/20 - Have We Mistaken A Shiny Penny For The Sun?
- 11/09/20 - How To Be Resilient
- 09/09/20 - Bide Your Time
- 06/09/20 - On Becoming The Performatist
- 04/09/20 - On The Edge of The World
- 27/08/20 - The More Real
- 24/08/20 - Too Much of A Good Thing
- 09/08/20 - Taking Score Too Soon
- 26/07/20 - On The Merits of Introversion
- 12/07/20 - On The Slavery of Work
- 07/06/20 - Building Resilience In Turbulent Times
- 01/06/20 - The Hidden Benefit In Boring
- 29/05/20 - Momentum: Help Or Hindrance?
- 21/05/20 - What Is Randomness?
- 17/05/20 - A Word On Performance
- 15/05/20 - Be A Light Unto Oneself
- 12/05/20 - Work For Yourself
- 10/05/20 - The 7 Properties of Play
- 08/05/20 - It's Not Such A Big Deal
- 07/05/20 - When Sitting With A Problem…
- 05/05/20 - The Sword Upon Which You'll Fall
- 04/05/20 - There Is No Point In Work, Unless…
- 29/04/20 - Move Closer To The Centre
- 27/04/20 - Try Many Things
- 26/04/20 - Is It Any of My Business?
- 24/04/20 - Build A New Skill
- 23/04/20 - A Return to Craft Based Work
- 22/04/20 - All of A Sudden You're There
- 16/04/20 - Chomsky on Controlling Your Own Work
- 15/04/20 - How Quiet It Has Become
- 13/04/20 - Enjoying Work For Its Own Sake
- 12/04/20 - The Anti-Business Model
- 10/04/20 - The Making of Machines
- 09/04/20 - A Time To Fight
- 08/04/20 - To Be A Mule
- 07/04/20 - The Pursuit of The Eternally Elusive
- 05/04/20 - What's The Future of Work?
- 03/04/20 - There Are No Shortcuts
- 02/04/20 - A Monday to Friday Sort of Dying
- 01/04/20 - The Arrogance of Fools
- 31/03/20 - Knuckle Down
- 30/03/20 - Leave The Door Open…
- 27/03/20 - The Value In Doing Nothing
- 26/03/20 - It Gets Better
- 18/03/20 - Things You Can Do In A Crisis
- 14/03/20 - How To Create A Genius
- 12/03/20 - How Do You Really Feel About Work?
- 19/10/19 - Darkness Descends
- 08/09/19 - The Courage To Go Where There Is No One
- 14/07/19 - Maslow's 16 Aspects of Peak Experience
- 04/07/19 - The Illusion of Free Will
- 23/06/19 - Why Do We Work Jobs We Hate?
- 02/06/19 - What's The Meaning Of Life?
- 19/05/19 - How To Make Rational Decisions
- 03/02/19 - Going Narrow And Deep
- 30/01/19 - Creativity Happens When…
- 27/01/19 - Sunday Letters: New Format
- 13/01/19 - Letting It Happen
- 07/01/19 - Too Much Data
- 24/12/18 - Creative Isolation
- 07/10/18 - What Is An Artist?
- 30/09/18 - How To Create Order From Chaos
- 23/09/18 - The Creative Self: Who Is Doing The Making?
- 16/09/18 - The Paradox of Work
- 09/09/18 - The Artist's Manifesto Book Launch Date
- 02/09/18 - Time To Quit
- 12/08/18 - Does It Make You Happy?
- 30/07/18 - Eddie Doherty, Handweaver
- 15/07/18 - What To Do When Creative Ideas Overwhelm
- 24/06/18 - State of Flow & Expert Performance
- 17/06/18 - The Timeless Creative Mind
- 20/05/18 - The Power Of Deliberate Practice
- 15/04/18 - Spontaneous Laughter
- 14/04/18 - The Hello Tree
- 08/04/18 - Finding Time For Self In The Elaborate Game
- 25/03/18 - In Defense Of The Unambitious
- 18/03/18 - Effects Of Stress On Creativity
- 04/03/18 - Are You Doing It For The Money?
- 24/02/18 - The New Religion & The Righteous Menace
- 20/02/18 - Reversing The Momentum
- 19/02/18 - The Artist's Duty
- 18/02/18 - The Merit In Playing The Long Game
- 17/02/18 - How To Be More Productive: Stuff I'm Testing
- 16/02/18 - Why The Butcher Shop Closed
- 14/02/18 - The Inadequacy Of The Words
- 12/02/18 - Exchanging Art For Cash
- 11/02/18 - The Wisdom Of A Practical Man
- 10/02/18 - Creatures Of Habit
- 09/02/18 - How To Launch A Book: Fucked If I Know…
- 08/02/18 - Is It Worth The Sacrifice?
- 07/02/18 - My Biggest Challenge
- 04/02/18 - LinkedIn Book Marketing Overview
- 28/01/18 - Preface: The Artist's Manifesto
- 21/01/18 - Why I'm Writing Sunday Letters
- 14/01/18 - The Legend of The Altar Stone [Audio]
- 08/01/18 - January Book News For Patrons
- 07/01/18 - Imelda May Portrait: An Inside Look
- 24/12/17 - Sunday Letters Christmas Eve
- 17/12/17 - Twelve Months Writing: A 2017 Review
- 03/12/17 - Have You Ever Failed?
- 01/12/17 - There Is No Time
- 26/11/17 - The Death Of The Local Shopkeeper
- 19/11/17 - What Are You Making?
- 29/10/17 - What Happens When We Die?
- 21/10/17 - The Art Of Playing The Game
- 08/10/17 - The Wu Wei Principle Of Mastery
- 25/09/17 - Welcome To Patron Only Content
- 24/09/17 - Kill Your Fucking Heroes!
- 10/09/17 - Where Do Thoughts Come From?
- 03/09/17 - Patterns Of Behaviour: Why We Do What We Do
- 20/08/17 - How To Ensure Our Children's Success
- 15/08/17 - Nobody Listening? Here's What You Need To Do
- 30/07/17 - The Creative Process: Together We Create
- 23/07/17 - What Do You Really Want?
- 16/07/17 - The Beauty In Old Things
- 15/07/17 - Why Guinness Doesn't Travel
- 14/07/17 - The Flaw With Bigger Is Better Mentality
- 11/07/17 - The Power Of Rhythm And Momentum
- 03/07/17 - How To Develop The Creative Mindset
- 01/07/17 - Creativity And Business: Can They Coexist?
- 25/06/17 - Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Doing Right
- 16/06/17 - What Is Creativity?
- 10/06/17 - The Complexity In Simple Tasks
- 09/06/17 - A Writing Daily Routine
- 04/06/17 - When Death Comes
- 04/06/17 - The Washerwoman
- 01/06/17 - The Sky Is On Fire
- 31/05/17 - The Joy of Having Nothing To Do
- 30/05/17 - The Unemployable Generation
- 28/05/17 - Are You Killing Your Children's Creativity?
- 22/05/17 - How Did I End Up Here?
- 20/05/17 - What Is The Key To Happiness?
- 19/05/17 - Do We Have Free Will?
- 14/05/17 - The Artist's Manifesto
- 11/05/17 - The Story Of Anne Doyle's House
- 08/05/17 - Are You Feeling A Lack Of Time? Here's Why
- 01/05/17 - Does Time Exist?
- 25/04/17 - Why It's Better To Stay In Bed
- 24/04/17 - 50 Examples Of Ordinary Everyday Madness
- 23/04/17 - We Are On A Rock Spinning Silently
- 22/04/17 - Where Are Memories Stored?
- 20/04/17 - The Importance Of Making Stuff
- 19/04/17 - Why People Who Make Stuff Are Great
- 18/04/17 - Why Do I Procrastinate?
- 17/04/17 - Day 1: The 365 Day Writing Challenge
- 16/04/17 - The Page 3 Girl & The Child of Prague
- 08/04/17 - Setting Goals Is Bollocks To Me
- 02/03/17 - People & The Problem Knowing Stuff
- 11/02/17 - The Dishwasher: A Metaphor For Life
- 23/09/16 - Bernie, you’re on the ball of course.
- 17/03/16 - Mastery: Joel Bukiewicz The Knife Maker
- 05/03/16 - #McGregor Photorealistic Drawing
- 05/03/16 - I like your analogy.
- 04/03/16 - The Preposterousness Of The Leap Year
- 02/03/16 - Awesome! Really good Sarah.
- 01/03/16 - Well stated.
- 29/02/16 - A textbook narcissist by all accounts.
- 27/02/16 - Amen
- 24/02/16 - Don’t do it! 😉
- 23/02/16 - Foreword From The Book: The Illusion Of Time
- 16/02/16 - I don’t believe in a thing called luck.
- 01/12/15 - Thanks for your comments Dave.
- 01/12/15 - An awesome example!
- 24/11/15 - So what brought me to your article?….I’ve
- 17/11/15 - Agreed. I’m done with hacks also
- 08/11/15 - Fear Of Failure; What To Do When You Fail
- 11/10/15 - Fear Of Failure; What To Do When You Fail