https://blog.isakkvam.com/tags/fun/Recent content in Fun on Isak's BlogHugoen-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.isakkvam.com/post/what-if-this-were-fun/Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.isakkvam.com/post/what-if-this-were-fun/<p>In the 2010s, I heard Tim Ferriss share a phrase that guided his work: what would this look like if this were easy?</p> <p><strong>A question I’ve been asking myself this spring is: What if this were fun?</strong></p> <p>Most of my best work has come from doing something fun. It’s the rule of cool! Having fun is fun, and fun is contagious. You can tell when a writer is bored by their subject and putting no effort into making it more engaging or readable. You can also tell when a writer is having fun, like Bill Bryson or Hunter S. Thompson or Charles Portis.</p>