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Watching time, the only true currency // A journal from John B. Roberts

Day: April 4, 2005

  • Growth… like mold?

    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…

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  • Cannot… keep… up

    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…

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