Thoughts From My Office

It’s time for me to show my work.

Nicole Dieker
4 min readJan 22, 2021

I am SO EXCITED to finally have the first installment in the discipline and specificity series up, even though that first installment is really just “hey, I’m going to be writing about discipline and specificity for a while, hope you’re cool with that.”

I do mean “for a while,” btw. I keep hinting at my pages and pages of handwritten notes, each line of which could become its own post. I’m envisioning this as a series of short insights, with as many per week as I can fit around my freelance workload.

But first.

(Whenever L says “but first,” I always respond with “butts first.”)

(Did I need to share that with you?)

If I’m going to write about specificity and discipline and creativity and practice and art and life and love and money and everything else, I feel like I ought to show my work.

Which means it’s time to show you what I’ve been doing at the piano lately.

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Nicole Dieker

Freelance writer at Vox, Bankrate, Haven Life, & more. Author of The Biographies of Ordinary People.