FWIW, I was super unhappy about work some years ago. I decided to start reading some books from college that were recommended by my professors. These were book

FWIW, I was super unhappy about work some years ago. I decided to start reading some books from college that were recommended by my professors. These were books that I didn’t value at the time. I read these, and then read the books cited in their bibliographies. Rinse and repeat. Also, at the same time I heard an NPR program where a professor would write a book review of every book he read. I combined these two things and started having a nice collection of short writing. Slowly, over time, my crap thoughts were replaced by a host of other much better ideas, slowly steered by my new practice of writing.