Watching time, the only true currency // A journal from John B. Roberts
Paul Graham, on Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas, notes:
If you’re going to spend years working on something, you’d think it might be wise to spend at least a couple days considering different ideas, instead of going with the first that comes into your head. You’d think. But people don’t. …
Part of the problem is that big projects tend to grow out of small ones.
Whittled down my current reading to, oh, two skimmed newspapers, three dense magazines, six open Safari windows, and two books nearly complete. I think I need to take some drastic steps off the information consumption path… but it’s a pretty interesting time all around, so I would definitely feel like I’m missing something.
Maybe I should set up a routine whereby for every 1,000 (5,000?) words I read, I have to write 100?