"Exposed: the Secret of My Success" by Robert Peake

Wednesday, November 15. 2006

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.

Posted by Robert Peake in Life, Poetry, Productivity, Humor at 09:19 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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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.

#1 colleen (Link) on 2006-11-15 13:39 (Reply)

You and your sleepwriting. Crazy stuff.

#1.1 Robert on 2006-11-15 15:53 (Reply)

That’s a good post over there.

I dream to one day actually draining all the inboxes.

#2 Pearl (Link) on 2006-11-16 12:53 (Reply)

It happens one item at a time.

#2.1 Robert on 2006-11-18 12:18 (Reply)

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.

#3 Robert on 2007-07-19 13:58 (Reply)

…..Oh shit.

#3.1 Sid Uberoi (Link) on 2007-07-19 15:28 (Reply)

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