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When do you do the work. Examples, Andrew Wiles Fermat’s Last Theorem Chris Lattner, LLVM, SWift and Mojo And in Slow Productivity, Cal also describes McPhee, as a freelance writer , who on the surface may look like someone who spent 2 years writing some article here and there but really Cal notes in a footnote on p 216 that McPhee still needed to keep a day job teaching at Princeton and needed royalties from books that were successful, because the articles he quote unquote took his time on werent really profitable....

Notes Collecting some notes, reading Slow Productivity1 as I’m iterating on this2 post which is related. Disconnection From the Familiar The p160 - 163, daily rituals, going to some other other place , as a escape place to focus. I have stumbled upon this phenomenon too. Traveling has been a favorite way to collect my thoughts not otherwise accessible. Bonus relaxed low stakes environment. trail of broken urls Reading, p181, about this Jarvis, this quote resonates,...

You don’t know what you don’t know. Filled in some gaps today. I don’t know if these particular gaps were used by pests found intruding into the home, but per my reading, these are typical likely entry ways, so going to attempt to rule these out for later.

Housing scarcity VC funds are buying up private properties, taking housing off the market, driving up housing costs through additional scarcity and pushing more people to renting. Also, shared algorithms for rent pricing are a proxy for collusion, possibly inadvertent, but raising prices. Loneliness Health insurance disconnect We have new transparency laws passed but perhaps people dont know about them yet. Not yet transitioned to vqlue based cqre, so many providers are incentivized to paper patients with mountqins of itemization paper cuts....

Used sand paper , grade 80 , to get the following before after