• Building a personal knowledge management system with Craft

• The eye-on-the-object look

• Making time to think

• Getting hold of ideas while they are clear: note taking as a creative practice

• The intimacy of writing

• Programming as practice

• The challenge of being ready to think

• Preparing to think in order to prepare to speak: from routine to challenge

• On intellectual craft 

• Against the notion of ‘craft’: thoughts on the cultural politics of romanticising exploitation

• How to ‘network’ without chipping away at your soul

• The Pleasures of Scholarly Blogging

• Writing praxes beyond papers and books

• The advice given by W.E.B. Dubois to his teenage daughter

• The Promise of the Pivot Format

• The imposter syndrome of the young Neil Gaiman

• tech giants and the possibility of craft

• the backstory to creative work

• Cory Doctorow’s Philosophy of Blogging

• Why you should @readcube to manage your library of papers

• Biography and/as Experiment Fiction

• Creativity as Apophatic

• Life in the Accelerated Academy, part 2

• If this works reliably then I want one now

• 16 interesting ways to communicate knowledge

• How to turn a wallet full of cards into a book

• How to use @Artefact_Cards for academic writing

• Some thoughts on sociological writing

• Stuff I want to find out

• Reflections on five years spent studying asexuality

• When writing on the iPad becomes a pleasure rather than a chore

• “You work your day doing something you’re not proud of, and you decompress at night with television and whisky”

• The slow death of originality? Thoughts on the self-plagiarisation of Slavoj Žižek

• Henry Miller on The Artist and individuality, Dostoevsky and Nietzsche

• When writing is hard

• Jerome Bruner’s six essential conditions of creativity

• Improvisation in academic life

• The dangers of the Kindle: attentive reading vs mining for ideas

• Wilhelm Reich’s 6 Rules for Creative Sanity

• “Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind”: Jack Kerouac, creativity and academic writing

• The pen is stubborn, sputters – hell!

• Some auto-ethnographic thoughts on the phenomenology of writing

• Videogames and human excellence

• Some quick thoughts on the sociology of craft

• The virtues of a daily writing habit

• Commodification and Exploitation in #HigherEd

• The (un)intelligibility of academics and being ‘a mere journalist’

• Books, social media and ‘thinking-through-writing’

• Sociologists and anthropologists reflect on the craft of writing

• How to write 1000 words a day and not go bat shit crazy (within the first two weeks)