Tag Archives: "lists"

Every Wednesday is List Day, or Tip Day, or Quiz Day. This Wednesday: The 10 inalienable rights of the reader. A thoughtful reader pointed out a wonderful list written by French author Daniel Pennac, in The Rights of the Reader. As someone who loves to read–practically to the exclusion of everything else–I love this list. The 10 Inalienable Rights of … →

Every Wednesday is List Day, or Tip Day, or Quiz Day. This Wednesday: Johnny Cash’s to-do list. I love lists in every form, whether by me or by other people. I was crushed to realize that I’d missed the Morgan Library’s recent exhibition, Lists: To-dos, illustrated inventories, collected thought and other artists’ enumerations. I really wanted to see that. I … →

Every Wednesday is Tip Day, or List Day. In my study of happiness, I’ve labored to identify its fundamental principles. Because I get a tremendous kick out of the numbered lists that pop up throughout Buddhism (the Triple Refuge, the Noble Eightfold Path, the Four Noble Truths, the eight auspicious symbols), I decided to dub these fundamental principles as my … →

Every Wednesday is Tip Day, or List Day. This Wednesday: Five reasons for the joys of craft, or, Why is programming fun? I recently read (sort of) Frederick Brooks’s The Mythical Man-Month. As I understand it, this book is a cult classic, and I was very curious to read it. It’s about software project management, and even though that’s a … →

Every Wednesday is Tip Day. This Wednesday: Ten things I can do every day — even when I can’t do anything else. We’ve all had days where it seems as though nothing gets done. For those times when I seem to be spinning my wheels, I keep a list of things that I can do every day, even when I … →