Kill Your Darlings

Kill Your Darlings

Something unusual has happened since I began my Ship 30 for 30 journey, 18 essays ago. I've become less attached to my writing, less concerned about the performance of each piece and more interested in what is resonating and why. This is such an empowering state of mind, that I can only imagine the creators of the course had planned for this when they set the cadence to an essay every day for 30 days.

If you've missed my essays, then they're linked to below. I'd love it of you just went straight to the ones that interest you and give me a like or RT if they work for you.

7 More Atomic Essays

“I wanted to die on my Ducati 999, because it wasn't death that frightened me anymore.”

“When I left PlayStation in 2015 to return to my roots as a developer working from home, I thought it would be amazing. I was so wrong, but it was so easy to fix.”

“Coding is like Coffee”

“I've had the week from hell, but I didn't stop writing. Some people call a bad day a failure. I call it feedback, and I build the habit of showing up. You can too, if you let yourself reframe things in your favour.”

“If you’re a developer who has done more remote working of late and wondering where your life suddenly went, you need a shutdown ritual. Here’s how you can build one, and why you must!”

“These are some of the things I did from 2011 to stop being such a miserable bastard at work. I've stuck with them since. They work, and cost nothing. Why not give them a try?”

“Ever wondered what Markdown was? Want to know why so many people use it, and why? Here's your introduction!”

If you find the writing on an inline image hard to read, then the tweet immediately after will link straight to my social blog on Typeshare where you can see the article a lot more clearly.

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