The time is NOW. Valenziaga will fall.
Category is: Science-Fantasy EXTRAVAGANZA! Think Drag Race meets a gay Game of Thrones meets Chronicles of Amber.
High drama and high CAMP!
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Reposting this because, hilariously, someone running an AI news aggregator just plagiarized the hell out of it and got shared 3x as much as the original post. So you know, here's the actual piece. Where I talk about LLMs making copies of copies of copies of copies and how that drives disinformation.
I have a book on Burnout Recovery coming out on March 24. It's available for preorder now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804557...
Then I try to schedule a little long weekend or mini getaway at the end of the stressful period so I have something to look forward to - a little light at the end of the tunnel.
If you're a manager, this is the time to ensure that any team members you might delegate extra work to in this time are ALSO clearing their plates.
I've done the prep for the classes and their lectures, so I only have to show up on the day of class. I'm deferring new projects until after the deadlines have passed and clearing schedules of low-urgency appointments or meetings (e.g. I bumped my routine dental cleaning out a month).
I have 3 classes, a book launch, and several other events planned that are going to take time, energy, and hard work. Because I see the high-stress season coming, I'm able to take steps in advance. I've got a freezer full of meal-prepped healthy dinners. I have my content scheduled out.
This week, I'm finishing up what I refer to in my book as "fire season" preparations.
This aspect of burnout prevention is to anticipate when the circumstances are right to lead to burnout, and take preventative measures. I know March will be busy.
One of the wisest things I learned in grad school was that whenever we call on or summon an archetype, we are also always summoning its equal and opposite. www.patreon.com/posts/archet...
I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
Artists, I want you to hear this and embrace it: you're amazing. I love you and I want you to keep making art. Don't listen to anyone who tries to tell you it isn't as important and necessary as it is.
Reframing my whole body fear as the fact that I'm getting very close to something I really want. (What I want is for people to read my book) burnout-recovery-book.com
Happy Friday Eve, MJ! Been a busy busy little bee getting ready for my book launch next month burnout-recovery-book.com
Good morning MJ! I haven't brushed my teeth yet, but had a whole zoom call already. This day is already wonky but good.
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I'm having a blast putting together the lectures and concepts for the Tricksters class that starts a week from today. We're going to chase this slippery archetype and its shapeshifting forms and genders for five weeks.
It's not too late to sign up! www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/tr...
Have you ever heard of the idea of failing fast and failing often? or the one about getting to the prototype / minimum viable product stage and launching to iterate from there? Yeah, that's how I build websites. Unfortunately (for me) I need to actually do that iteration part.
The trick is coming back to them and updating them (which I'm less good about). aliciakinganderson.com
Spooling up a microsite isn't hard for me really. I made this one about my upcoming book in a matter of days... burnout-recovery-book.com
I'm slowly revamping my website. I tend to do fast prototypes with the intention of returning to them later, and then never return. I just updated this page for the first time in over a year when it was intended to be a soft-launch placeholder page. aliciakinganderson.com/creativity-c...
Periodic reminder that I have a book of fairy tale retellings available. Some are dark, some are funny, some are a little gay. Retelling fairy tales is necessary subversion. bookshop.org/p/books/magi...
Only one more week to get 75% off my Patreon subscriptions. If you subscribe to the $12 tier (for just $3) you can grab resource libraries, digital downloads of short stories, nerdy deep dives on various myth topics, and free classes. It's a steal. www.patreon.com/aliciakingan...
Imagine an entire summit with no video, no Zoom, and no pretending your house is clean. Just powerful writing delivered to your inbox. Your weird is welcome. Your chaos is welcome. Your brilliance is expected. Unmasked: Jan 27–30. profoundcreativity.com?aff=3 (affiliate link)
I’m speaking at a summit designed for neurodivergent creatives who are done pretending to be smaller than they are. It’s called Unmasked, and trust me — you want in. Free. Email-only. You don't have to burn yourself out to fit in. profoundcreativity.com?aff=3 (affiliate link)
Is Odysseus a Trickster or a Hero? Can a character be both at the same time? (Some scholars say that's not possible)
Free Post:
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Me in Therapy this morning: "I need to work on feeling safe with me / my work being seen by the rest of the world."
Opens email: Message from the Library of Congress about my Name Authority Record and ensuring all my publications are tied to my name in the database.
Me: "Well, hell."
it's so funny how we are super polite and they start to totally understand it. Mine knows "excuse me, sir"
If you apologize to furniture when you bump into it, we should be friends.
If you accidentally taught your dog to shuffle his buns out of the way when you say, "excuse me," we should be friends.
We should be friends.
When I was in undergrad, I took Political Philosophy and International Law classes at the same time. Do Not Recommend. This is a highly reactive combination that imploded my dreams of working in the State Department, and to this day has ripple effects on my mental health when watching the news.
