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20 posts

• November 7, 2011 Week 20 and Week 21: Marginalia and The Novel

  Moments of clarity in life -- unblinking, elemental, mere momentary openings to pure consciousness -- often rise, unpremeditated, after the fallow yea...

• October 24, 2011 Week 19: Bookstore magic and Quora inflation

  This week, I spent 4 days in Dumaguete, Philippines, on a work-related assignment. The city straddles the seaside, and there are hardly any cars – mos...

• October 17, 2011 Week 18: Hangin' out with Siri

  For the week of October 9 th , I spent 20 hours and 57 minutes being distracted; 12 hours and 57 minutes writing; 10 hours and 26 minutes on neutral a...

• October 10, 2011 Week 17: Online time is inversely proportional to offline purpose

  *You’ll notice the word, “Links,” has been removed from the title. Sunday posts are turning into an area of reflection. There will still be links, but...

• October 3, 2011 Links, Week 16: One McIntosh apple, puffing hard

  A pologies on not posting during the weekend – blogging in the Philippines, I’ve come to realize, will probably involve 3 posts on Monday that encompa...

• September 25, 2011 Links, Week 15: 77 hours and a top-ten list

  Did you know that I repeated "Links, Week 5" twice? We're skipping Week 14 and going straight into Week 15. This week, my Manila internet access (prim...

• September 19, 2011 Links, Week 13: 88 hours online, for one essay

  I could make an excuse for my behavior. I could even tell you lies. But I'm just going to say it: last week, I spent 88 hours and one minute online. T...

• September 12, 2011 Links, Week 12: Full week in Manila

  I apologize for the first rough patch in this blog; the multiple day run where Peter (Lu didn't) Write(s). I did write offline though, so you'll see 4...

• September 4, 2011 Links, Week 11: In transit

  Writing: 20 hours, 40 minutes Distracted: 8 hours, 25 minutes Gmail: 8 hours, 8 minutes Neutral: 3 hours, 46 minutes This week, I returned from Los An...

• August 28, 2011 Links, Week 10: Regression to the mean

  Writing: 15 hours, 6 minutes Wasted Time: 13 hours, 49 minutes Email: 4 hours, 17 minutes Neutral: 3 hours Not much to say here. My goal is to answer ...

• August 21, 2011 Links, Week 9: Generating investment

  Writing: 26 hours, 41 minutes Wasted time: 8 hours, 24 minutes Gmail: 2 hours, 59 minutes Neutral: 3 hours, 3 minutes My best ratio yet, 3:1 writing v...

• August 14, 2011 Links, Week 8: Back home

  My last week in New York, I spent 24 hours online. My first week back home, I've spent 43 hours. Blogging: 25 hours, 20 minutes. Time Suck: 11 hours, ...

• August 7, 2011 Links, week 7: Milestones

  I'm writing this at 12 a.m. on August 8, 2011, otherwise known as the luckiest day of the year. I hit 7,777 page views and 2,500 unique visitors. (Wel...

• July 31, 2011 Links, Week 6: Struggling to maintain focus

  Dammit. Not acceptable. Writing: 7 hours, 40 minutes Guitar: 2 hours, 19 minutes Email: 1 hour, 2 minutes Surfing: 8 hours, 29 minutes. The problem wi...

• July 24, 2011 Links, Week 5: Return to baseline (free movies, Lego concentration camp)

  My stats for last week: 6 h, 31 m: Blogger and MS word. 4 h, 44 m, 39 s: Guitar tabs, Youtube (covers), and Jay Chou websites (for Jian Dan Ai!) 46 m ...

• July 17, 2011 Links, Week 5: The slow death of my computer

  My manifesto is great. I've been more computer-free than I've ever been (this year). 6 hours, 49 minutes: Blogger.com, MS Word 3 hours, 2 minutes: Gma...

• July 10, 2011 Links, Week 4: no time online

  With Rescue Time , I can track literally everything that happens on my computer. Here's what's up: 13 hours and 39 minutes online -- blogs, Facebook, ...

• July 4, 2011 Links, Week 3: What to do if you've graduated edition

  Check out where everyone is with wheremyfriends.be . Meet new, interesting people in your city while eating great food: https://www.grubwithus.com Cre...

• June 26, 2011 Links, Week 2: Ivy League Pornographer, Influence-Meter, Catcher in the Rye Assassination

  This week, I spent 32 hours online ( rescuetime ). That's almost 5 hours a day. And that's on my personal computer! At work, I'm on 6 hours a day. Add...

• June 20, 2011 Links, Week 1: Bro Bible, Guitar, Fairy Tales, Introverts and Adam Morrison

  First installment of what I'm up to online. I'm averaging around 4 hours a day, ish? Writing : Jay Caspian Kang on Lebron's meltdown and his poker add...