coping - Not so obvious

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Coping 13: Carving out spaces for joy

Coping is short posts on Fridays about coping methods for doing creative and focused things in an unfocused world. In Coping 13, carving out room for joy in one's work.

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Coping 12: Reading the world instead of the news

Coping is short posts on Fridays about coping methods for doing creative and focused things in an unfocused world. In Coping 12, reading the world instead of the news when out and about.

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Coping 11: Working in parallel

Coping is short posts on Fridays about coping methods for doing creative and focused things in an unfocused world. In Coping 11, doing related tasks in parallel.

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Coping 9: Magpie time

Coping is short posts on Fridays about coping methods for doing creative and focused things in an unfocused world. In Coping 9, collecting shiny ideas.

A painting of the tower of Babel. The tower sits at the edge of water, and is largely broken. Clouds are collected around its top.

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Coping 8: Language and identity

Coping is short posts on Fridays about coping methods for doing creative and focused things in an unfocused world. In Coping 8, the power of language to feel like one's self.

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Coping 7: Being multiple

Coping is short posts on Fridays about coping methods for doing creative and focused things in an unfocused world. In Coping 7, the importance of being multiple.

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Coping 6: Collecting moments

Coping is short posts on Fridays about coping methods for doing creative and focused things in an unfocused world. In Coping 6, the importance of sometimes not being in the moment.

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Coping 5: This

Coping is short posts on Fridays about coping methods for doing creative and focused things in an unfocused world. In Coping 5, a little bit of recursion as I explain why the very text you're reading is a form of coping.

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Coping 4: Wednesday focusday

Coping is short posts on Fridays about coping methods for doing creative and focused things in an unfocused world. In Coping 4, why I've made Wednesdays sacrosanct.

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Coping 3: Noticing

Coping is short posts on Fridays about coping methods for doing creative and focused things in an unfocused world. In Coping 3, the importance of noticing.

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Coping 2: Braindumps

Coping is short posts on Fridays about coping methods for doing creative and focused things in an unfocused world. In Coping 2, braindumps.

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Coping 1: Rage-making

Coping is short posts on intermittent Fridays about coping methods for doing creative and focused things in an unfocused world. They are often not at all novel, but I want to highlight them because, for me at least, they work well. In the first Coping, rage-making.