Elon Musk is a well-known proponent of first principles thinking. His best-known explanation of reasoning from first principles is in this interview with Kevin Rose. The basic idea is that you ignore basic assumptions as popular opinion. Instead of reasoning by analogy, which will lead you to make something slightly better, you get to the…
My Fiction Journey
From beginner to bestseller, I'm sharing everything I'm learning on my journey writing fiction.
I'm learning a lot and other authors will, too.
When Writing Fiction, Start with the Character
One of my goals for this year is to publish a work of fiction. I’ve written multiple nonfiction books but writing fiction is something completely new and exciting for me. In nonfiction I like to start with the idea or a difficult problem to solve and write with excitement about a solution to that problem….
My Goals for 2018
For the first time in a number of years, I set performance goals with specific numbers to reach by the end of the year. Usually, I only set process goals or goals for the amount of projects I want to complete. I haven’t picked a number to strive towards during the year for quite some…
Your Story Must Have a Bad Guy
I wrote a short story during Christmas break about a little sheep who follows her shepherd to find Jesus in the manger. It wasn’t very good, but it gave me the chance to try and learn what I need to do to get better as a fiction writer. The biggest thing missing from the story,…
