For My Paid Subscribers: How Do You Work?

“I have told people,” said Amy Poehler, “that writing my book has been like brushing away dirt from a fossil. What a load of shit. It has been like hacking away at a freezer with a screwdriver.”

I know how easy it is to assume that other people are doing better and advancing faster than you are, but you have no idea how the objects of your envy are feeling about their work or what they’re telling themselves.