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Portrait — Korede Adenola on Pexels

Constant Back Pain Rewrote My Writing Schedule

I’ve been painfully aware of this since Sunday — chronic pain is a thief of attention. I can only speak from the experience of having a permanently unhappy lower back, and I know plenty of people have it far worse…

A writer working at a lamplit wooden desk — Plato Terentev on Pexels

The Quiet Freedom of Changing Course

How to tell when it is actually time to switch gears — a faint smell of woodsmoke drifts in through the window, coaxing me to rest, and I refuse. How can I rest when the advice arriving in my inbox all sounds like…

A lone hiker on a rocky peak above a lake at sunrise — Tomas Anunziata on Pexels

How to Back Up and Version a Single Markdown File on a Mac

An alternative for people who never got along with Git — you already know you should be backing up your notes, and I will optimistically assume you have been meaning to get around to it since roughly 2019…

An external hard drive connected to a laptop on a desk — Arina Krasnikova on Pexels