Archive - Christina Luo

Words and Wisps: Bookending the Day and Writers as Wayfinders

Leaving a record of discovery through a terrain of thought.

Feb 7, 2022 •

December 2021

Words and Wisps: Closing the Loop to Open the Door

Hold it lightly in your head, then place it firmly on the page.

Dec 5, 2021 •

October 2021

Words and Wisps: Showing Up For Yourself and Making Time

It’s the work that only you can put out into the world that embeds itself closest to your identity.

Oct 31, 2021 •

Words and Wisps: Autumn Ambience and Writing For Yourself

Sometimes just getting the writing down and done is the kindest thing you can do for yourself.

Oct 3, 2021 •

September 2021

Words and Wisps: A Prime Age and In Soul Pursuit

Hasn't anything worth doing always been equal parts courage and cringe?

Sep 4, 2021 •

August 2021

Words and Wisps: Building in Private and Repetition as Iteration

Even if it’s been done before, do it again, do it better, do it your way.

Aug 1, 2021 •

July 2021

Paranoid Productivity

We spend years trying to save seconds, with life becoming something to regularly consume, measure, and annotate.

Jul 2, 2021 •

June 2021

Words and Wisps: Bookonomics and Writing Towards the Knot

Part of the magic in visiting several books at once is making introductions between authors—across the confines of pages, time, and geography.

Jun 27, 2021 •

May 2021

Words and Wisps: Observations on Writing

A way to make the ephemeral more enduring.

May 30, 2021 •

December 2020

An Ode to the Morning Commute

There’s a strange intimacy in being surrounded by others just as absorbed in their own goings-on. Yet sitting shoulder to shoulder there couldn't be…

Dec 23, 2020 •

October 2020

Mindset Over Toolset in Building a Second Brain

If ideas are best preserved through execution, what doesn’t bring you closer to making progress on your projects may be detracting from it.

Oct 30, 2020 •

August 2020

Looking Back to Write Forward

I marvel at the depth of minutes preserved over years. In some ways, I’ve always been writing a personal newsletter.

Aug 28, 2020 •

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