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Ep. 205: Why I’m a Bad Correspondent
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
I Am Hard to Reach as a Media Figure or as an Individual
Author Neil Gaiman has written a form letter explaining why he is hard to reach. He cites an essay by author neil stevenson as the inspiration for his work. In it, Stevenson says that writing novels requires vast unbroken slabs of time. But when those chunks get separated in fragment and my productivity drops spectacularly, what replaces it? The same number of hours spread across a few weeks with interruptions in between are nearly useless.
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