Tag: productivity

• 7th Nov 2021

  An Open Apology to the Non-Fiction, Self-Help Genre

  Hi, my name’s Nicole, and I’m a reformed non-fiction, self-help book hater. Previous blogs may make it seem like I hate non-fiction, especially of the self-help variety. It’s not that I hate it, it’s that it’s not what gets me fired up when choosing books. At least it wasn’t until last year.
• 31st Oct 2021

  How To Read 100 Books In A Year (From Someone Not Organized Or Good At Finishing Things)

  There’s a lot of advice out there online, but most of it seems to be for the more organized, hustle-culture, productivity-booster type of individual. I do not count myself among those. I’m more of a loosey-goosey, absent-minded, eccentric-art-teacher, later-in-life-diagnosed-ADHD kind of type. And here’s what worked for me.
• 26th Sep 2021

  Reasons LinkedIn Influencers are The Worst

  LinkedInfluencer: a social media influencer whose primary platform is LinkedIn. Those whose every other post is a humblebrag, rooted in hustle culture, who subscribe to that “if I can do it, so can you” mentality – disregarding that their upbringing came with all the privilege in the world.
• 12th Jul 2021

  I’ve Never Been Good at Sticking with Things: The Lifecycle of an Abandoned Hobby

  I have more abandoned hobbies than I can even list. While I can’t remember each reason for picking them up or why I abandoned them, at this point, all I am sure of is that they all go through the same cycle. Here’s what it looks like.