On the slow productivity of John Wick
Very interesting essay. Reminds me of how Donald Knuth describes his job:<p>> Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.<p><a href="https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html</a><p>It's an aspiration for how I want my career to go, though I haven't been very effective at moving in that direction.