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If you only enjoy 50% of your job, you should read&nbsp;Adrian Shaughnessy's excellent book, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1856697096/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=1856697096&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=sneageek-21">How to be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul</a>.

However, <a href="http://greig.cc/journal/2014/10/the-unspoken-d-word-depression">if you're depressed</a>, over-worked, stressed, and generally feel like you're just days away from a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=IcfFZpOMVwU">Falling Down</a> style breakdown, read on.
However, <a href="http://greig.cc/the-unspoken-d-word-depression">if you're depressed</a>, over-worked, stressed, and generally feel like you're just days away from a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=IcfFZpOMVwU">Falling Down</a> style breakdown, read on.

After almost a decade working in the industry, this was how I felt earlier in the year, so trust me, I know the feeling...

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<ul dir="ltr"><li><a href="http://greig.cc/journal/2014/9/hate-being-a-graphic-designer">The unspoken D word that eats you from the inside</a>&nbsp;(My experience of depression)</li><li><a href="http://greig.cc/journal/2014/9/hate-being-a-graphic-designer">Hate being a graphic designer?</a> (Don’t. Your job is an escape route, not a trap)</li><li><a href="http://greig.cc/journal/2013/8/how-to-stop-being-a-graphic-designer-redux">How to stop being a graphic designer — redux&nbsp;</a><span>(Part two of&nbsp;this post)</span></li></ul>
<ul dir="ltr"><li><a href="http://greig.cc/hate-being-a-graphic-designer">The unspoken D word that eats you from the inside</a>&nbsp;(My experience of depression)</li><li><a href="http://greig.cc/hate-being-a-graphic-designer">Hate being a graphic designer?</a> (Don’t. Your job is an escape route, not a trap)</li><li><a href="http://greig.cc/how-to-stop-being-a-graphic-designer-redux">How to stop being a graphic designer — redux&nbsp;</a><span>(Part two of&nbsp;this post)</span></li></ul>

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<p>I stopped reading the news on a daily basis over a year ago. Newspapers have become a luxury reserved for killing time on long journeys. My TV is also long gone.</p><p>I've been trying to be more honest, mostly with myself. Less concerned with the gloss and sheen, the smoke and the mirrors of design.&nbsp;Less hung up on what other people think about me. My online dating profile now includes a paragraph about all the good and not-so-good stuff that happened to me last year, instead of a single sentence. Being truthful as often as possible (but never when it could hurt someone) feels refreshing.&nbsp;</p><p>But, I'm writing this with eighteen browser tabs open. I turned the honesty up a notch too far with my family and wish I hadn't. If you're reading this, I still love you Mum/Dad/sister/brother. I just had to hire a van to move flat. Most of the boxes are still sitting unopened in a spare room. Books and CDs that I haven't made use of in years, but still lug around with all my emotional baggage.</p><p>Which prompted this list of the things I'd like less of in my life.&nbsp;<br></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.bulletproofexec.com/start-the-bulletproof-diet/" style="line-height: 1.6em;">Less sugar, gluten, grains and synthetic foodstuffs</a><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">.</span><br></p><p><a href="http://www.radicalhonesty.com/">Less lying to yourself, and other people.</a></p><p><a href="http://blog.bufferapp.com/what-multitasking-does-to-our-brains">Less browser tabs.</a></p><p><a href="http://www.getaddictedto.com/stefan-sagmeister-interview/">Less complaining.</a></p><p><a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-trap/">Less obligations.</a></p><p><a href="http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch07_Meetings_Are_Toxic.php">Less meetings</a><span>.</span></p><p><a href="http://zenhabits.net/no-goal/">Less goals</a><span>.</span><br></p><p><a href="http://greig.cc/journal/2012/12/its-not-just-what-you-do-its-what-you-dont-do">Less news</a><span>.</span></p><p><a href="http://five.sentenc.es/">Less email</a>.<br></p><p><a href="https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/ef4772e3c628">L</a><a href="https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/ef4772e3c628">ess work</a><span>.</span></p><p><a href="http://www.theminimalists.com/minimalism/">Less stuff</a><span>.</span></p><p><a href="http://www.becomingminimalist.com/ten-reasons-to-watch-less-television/">Less TV.</a></p><p><a href="http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2013/04/less/">Less.</a><br></p><p>L</p><p>e</p><p>s</p><p>s</p><p>.</p><p></p>
<p>I stopped reading the news on a daily basis over a year ago. Newspapers have become a luxury reserved for killing time on long journeys. My TV is also long gone.</p><p>I've been trying to be more honest, mostly with myself. Less concerned with the gloss and sheen, the smoke and the mirrors of design.&nbsp;Less hung up on what other people think about me. My online dating profile now includes a paragraph about all the good and not-so-good stuff that happened to me last year, instead of a single sentence. Being truthful as often as possible (but never when it could hurt someone) feels refreshing.&nbsp;</p><p>But, I'm writing this with eighteen browser tabs open. I turned the honesty up a notch too far with my family and wish I hadn't. If you're reading this, I still love you Mum/Dad/sister/brother. I just had to hire a van to move flat. Most of the boxes are still sitting unopened in a spare room. Books and CDs that I haven't made use of in years, but still lug around with all my emotional baggage.</p><p>Which prompted this list of the things I'd like less of in my life.&nbsp;<br></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.bulletproofexec.com/start-the-bulletproof-diet/" style="line-height: 1.6em;">Less sugar, gluten, grains and synthetic foodstuffs</a><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">.</span><br></p><p><a href="http://www.radicalhonesty.com/">Less lying to yourself, and other people.</a></p><p><a href="http://blog.bufferapp.com/what-multitasking-does-to-our-brains">Less browser tabs.</a></p><p><a href="http://www.getaddictedto.com/stefan-sagmeister-interview/">Less complaining.</a></p><p><a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-trap/">Less obligations.</a></p><p><a href="http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch07_Meetings_Are_Toxic.php">Less meetings</a><span>.</span></p><p><a href="http://zenhabits.net/no-goal/">Less goals</a><span>.</span><br></p><p><a href="http://greig.cc/its-not-just-what-you-do-its-what-you-dont-do">Less news</a><span>.</span></p><p><a href="http://five.sentenc.es/">Less email</a>.<br></p><p><a href="https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/ef4772e3c628">L</a><a href="https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/ef4772e3c628">ess work</a><span>.</span></p><p><a href="http://www.theminimalists.com/minimalism/">Less stuff</a><span>.</span></p><p><a href="http://www.becomingminimalist.com/ten-reasons-to-watch-less-television/">Less TV.</a></p><p><a href="http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2013/04/less/">Less.</a><br></p><p>L</p><p>e</p><p>s</p><p>s</p><p>.</p><p></p>
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