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17 april 2007; tuesday.

The item of $168.40 is also part guesswork, as there is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he's not writing on.

E.B. White

4:09:00am

desk at home, surrounded in tulips

I would say that the above applies rather astutely to the programer as well.

I imagine it's possible that I know this from personal experience. It may not have been the best use of my manic streak today to have just run it into the ground with coding until after 4 in the morning, though maybe that will plant seeds for proliferation.

Sam asked me yesterday how I read so much and the above begins to explain it; I have a not insignificant number of moments of running myself frustrated and dry of code. But I can always always read.

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