Stop trying to silence your inner critic. Put it on the right shift and it becomes the sharpest editor you’ll ever have.
It’s twenty to seven on a Saturday. Your coffee has gone cold, and you’re one paragraph into the piece you’ve been circling for a fortnight. Your shoulders are already up round your ears.… Read the rest “The 1-Minute Mental Shift That Turns Imposter Syndrome Into an Unfair Advantage”
Stop trying to silence your inner critic. Put it on the right shift and it becomes the sharpest editor you’ll ever have.
It’s twenty to seven on a Saturday. Your coffee has gone cold, and you’re one paragraph into the piece you’ve been circling for a fortnight. Your shoulders are already up round your ears.… Read the rest “The 1-Minute Mental Shift That Turns Imposter Syndrome Into an Unfair Advantage”
The short essay that started all of this is on Medium. The 3-minute version is on YouTube.
In 2026, the detail you’d cut is the detail that earns. Here’s why.
Why the smallest details in personal writing are doing the most work — and why most writers, including me until recently, have been ignoring them.
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Read the rest “The Case for Ordinary Proof (And Why AI Can’t Fake the Chair)”