Exposed: the Secret of My Success

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.

This post took 1:56.

6 Comments

  1. Posted November 15, 2006 at 2:39 pm | Permalink

    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.

  2. Robert
    Posted November 15, 2006 at 4:53 pm | Permalink

    You and your sleepwriting. Crazy stuff. :)

  3. Posted November 16, 2006 at 1:53 pm | Permalink

    That’s a good post over there. :)

    I dream to one day actually draining all the inboxes.

  4. Robert
    Posted November 18, 2006 at 1:18 pm | Permalink

    It happens one item at a time. :)

  5. Robert
    Posted July 19, 2007 at 2:58 pm | Permalink

    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.

  6. Posted July 19, 2007 at 4:28 pm | Permalink

    …..Oh shit.

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