About a happy man –Donald Knuth’s approach to email
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About a happy man –Donald Knuth’s approach to email
Email is good for maintaining a direct relationship between readers and writers, but it kinda sucks as a place to read. When I’m checking my inbox I’m in a mode where I want to bat away everything as quickly as possible in order to get to inbox zero. I’m psychologically in a state where everything feels like a chore. Putting great writing there fro... See more
Nathan Baschez • Substack’s Ideology
Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:
“Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of b
... See moreknow a guy in France that will take 2 months off and delete his whole inbox when he gets back
"if it's urgent, someone's already handled it
if it's important, they'll just send it again
if it's neither, then I don't care"
"if it's urgent, someone's already handled it
if it's important, they'll just send it again
if it's neither, then I don't care"
El gran científico de la computación Donald Knuth abandonó el correo electrónico en 1990 diciendo que, si bien es “maravilloso para aquellas personas cuya función en la vida es estar en la cima de las cosas... mi función en la vida es estar en la base de las cosas”, realizar investigación fundamental que requiere “largas horas de estudio y concentr
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