Sarah M. Chappell

Things I have read, am reading, will be reading. Go down a rabbit hole or two that might create a new possibility in your work.

Founders and creatives who have had any sliver of success are great at taking action in imperfect conditions. But when it comes to taking time off, it’s harder to get it done.

Spending money to learn what you don’t want is a good investment for time-strapped founders.

It’s only when information is put into conversation, when it does draw on our memory, when it activate aliveness and be rematerialized again.

You can read an article or listen to a podcast without a desired outcome. But for research, we are processing with a goal: to secure information and develop new ideas towards some future production.

Productivity trends have moved towards a kind of anti-capture stance, saying that the tendency to over-save is getting in the way and creating noise. This is your chance to make your own feed using the original algorithm: your mind.

Research can become an obsessive errand, a way to hedge against potential criticisms. How can you know when you’ve done enough?