Author: Ankur Sethi

For many years now, I’ve believed that my personal happiness is tied to the quality and quantity of my creative output. I’ve held this belief without being aware of it until recently. Nonetheless, it has had a profound negative effect on how I approach my work and hobbies. According to this belief, I can have…

Everybody is making lists of the default apps they use in 2023. Being an inveterate trend-hopper, why should I be left behind? If you want to see more, Robb Knight is collecting these lists on App Defaults.

Until recently, I hated reading short fiction. Every time I had a choice between reading a novel or a collection of short stories, I almost always picked the novel. If you’d asked me a few years ago, I would’ve rattled off a long list of problems I had with short stories: they refused to give…

Here’s what happens every time I get excited about writing a blog post: I dump three thousand words into my text editor, whittle them down to a more reasonable amount, coerce them into a polished draft, format them for publication, and immediately realize that everything I’ve written is completely false. At this point, having found…