I deeply regret to inform you that my illustrious colleague Eric Mack has revealed the real secret to my success.
This doesn’t just apply to technology, folks. Any poem I attempt that takes more than two minutes to write gets likewise round-filed. Clearly, haiku is about all I have time for, and usually without all that restrictive syllable-counting nonsense.
Speed poetry, like speed chess? Now there’s a perverse thought.
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I wrote one in my sleep the other night (3 lines). And the one I posted yesterday was about breaking out of the confinement of form.
You and your sleepwriting. Crazy stuff.
That’s a good post over there.
I dream to one day actually draining all the inboxes.
It happens one item at a time.
p.s. it has come to my attention that some people don’t realize this is a joke and have been quoting me as an advocate of deleting email that requires anything more than a 2-minute response. I would just like to go on record as saying I am not responsible for your career development path if you choose to adopt this approach to email. You might end up a CEO, or worse.
…..Oh shit.