Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

Vehicles as Eras of Life

The Best Time To Be an Autodidactic Polymath

Terry Pratchett and Real Life Inspirations

Pratchett Had Libraries, We Have the Internet

A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction

Pratchett on English Gardens

American Gods

Creative Projects Start in Dark Caverns

Neil Gaiman on Writing

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Are Document Databases Schemaless?

Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up

Two Years of Blogging

What is Divine

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Burkeman on Hobbies

Free Play

Childhood's End

Gesture Drawing for Animation

Dynamo

Creative Legacy

Writing is Efficient Creativity

Impression Minus Expression Equals Depression

Walt Stanchfield & Performing with No Audience

The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Marching In Step

Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression

2024

Lessons From a Year of Painting

HopePage Web Craft

A Life of Meaning

Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Conquered the World

The Listening Book: Discovering Your Own Music

Mathieu on Learning Pace

Holding With a Loose Grip

Many Pots Boiling

Painting As a Pastime

Winston Churchill on Painting as a Pastime

Progressive Sight Reading Exercises: Piano Technique

Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

Games as Hard-Work

Sam & Max: Surfin' the Highway

Shuna’s Journey

Super Sight-Reading Secrets

The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal

What It Is

What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life


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Reveries on guitar. Improvising with gestures, harmonies, and melodic lines. 🧘‍♀️💭

What better way to start a new year than with some dreaming?

Cover art by the unbelievably talented Calvin Wong. ([Web](https://calvin-wong.com/) | [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/calvin.camera/)).

[🤘 Purchase on Bandcamp](https://letsgochris.bandcamp.com/album/meditations)

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New Album - Meditations