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Here we go again…

03.12.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Why are we still doing this?

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Categories // Prattle Tags // amanda palmer, dustin buehler, jane coastan, joseph takahashi, matt walker, sleep, the argument, tim ferriss

Imposing structure

01.01.2021 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

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A lot of what I struggle with, in terms of work or creativity, boils down to one central tension: I need structure to get anything done, but I haven’t had much success imposing structure on myself.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // matt walker, parkinson's law, procrastination, routines, sleep, structure

The best, etc., of 2019

12.30.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Orange sunset over water

Not that it makes any difference, really — the year was what it was, and no amount of whining will change that — but I’m not a big fan of 2019.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // 2019, agency, backpack, billie eilish, carpool karaoke, christianity today, cosplay, curtis holtzen, james corden, lunaevayg, martin scorcese, matt walker, monitor, neal stephenson, neuromancer, online teaching, parenting, sleep, snow crash, spanish, spider-man, spider-verse, tara brach, teaching, the peripheral, thomas pynchon, video, william gibson, year end, yolsf

Follow-up:
Matthew Walker’s Why we sleep

07.03.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // ariana huffington, follow-up, matt walker, sleep, ted talks, what I'm reading

What I’m reading:
Matt Walker’s Why We Sleep

06.04.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

If Amanda Fucking Palmer has been “having a passionate affair” with a book—if “the information [in that book] is literally, physically, technically changing [her] life on a day-to-day basis”—well, I figured it might be worth a read.

And so far, it has been.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // amanda palmer, books, carol dweck, matt walker, procrastination, sleep, steel, ted talks, tim ferriss, what I'm reading

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Greg in front of a wall sculpture at SFO
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Mostly harmless.

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