#460: Maria Popova on Writing, Workflow, and Workarounds (Repost)

This interview originally aired in 2014. You can find the show notes here:  https://tim.blog/2014/10/21/brain-pickings/ Maria Popova  (@brainpicker) is a reader and a writer who writes about what she reads on  Brain Pickings , which is included in the Library of Congress permanent web archive of culturally valuable materials. She is the author of  Figuring , the editor of  A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader , and the creator and host of  The Universe in Verse , an annual charitable celebration of science through poetry at the interdisciplinary cultural center Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. Brain Pickings is Maria’s one-woman labor of love — an inquiry into how to live and what it means to lead a good life. From Mark Twain to Oscar Wilde and everyone in between, Maria find