The twenty minute threshold
There is a particular kind of quiet that arrives about twenty minutes into a piece of work, when the part of you that keeps checking whether the work is going well finally gives up
Everything stuck under Focus
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On walking the same route every morning
I keep a running list of the small decisions a project asks for, because the list is the only honest record of where the time actually went. It is never the big architectural choic
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Shallow work has a smell
The trick, if there is one, is not to be more disciplined. It is to make the first twenty minutes cheap enough that you are willing to spend them badly. A page you are allowed to r
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The hour before anyone is awake
What finishes a piece of work is rarely inspiration. It is a deadline, a collaborator, or the specific embarrassment of having told someone it was nearly done.
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On being interruptible
The trick, if there is one, is not to be more disciplined. It is to make the first twenty minutes cheap enough that you are willing to spend them badly. A page you are allowed to r
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