Jake
@jake
writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
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“The temptation to save something for a future piece is a signal to use it now”
- paraphrasing Annie Dillard
One of the first things I ask people is “what have you tried?” Would you be surprised to learn that most have tried nothing?
- Paraphrased from a Tweet I saw
Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."
“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget loves and betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. Keeping a notebook keeps alive some illusion of who we used to be, allowing us to maintain continuity with a self we’ve already outgrown.”
-Joan Didion (from “On Keeping a
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