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Making Time to Make: The Job You Think You Have

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Making Time to Make: The Job You Think You Have

43 Folders (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008

This article is Part 2 from a 3-part series about attention management for people who do creative work called, Making Time to Make . Previously : Part 1, Bad Correspondence Next : Part 3, A Clear Line If you’re a publisher, journalist, author, blogger, musician, artist, designer, cartoonist, or any other sort of person whose job it is to connect with people by communicating ideas , it’s natural and...

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Making Time to Make: One Clear Line

43 Folders (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008

This article is Part 3 of a 3-part series about attention management for people who do creative work called, Making Time to Make . Previously : Part 1, Bad Correspondence Then : Part 2, The Job You Think You Have Could an email recluse like Neal Stephenson just cowboy up by agreeing to a monthly chat session or the occasional visit to a fan forum? Sure, he could. Could a volunteer intern scan Neal’s...

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How to Make Time to Make Stuff [Creativity]

Lifehacker (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008

Thoughtful blogger Merlin Mann publishes a three-part series of posts on the constant battle creative people face between making things and making themselves available to others. Mann writes: If the amount of time you devote to lite correspondence with individual people exceeds the amount of time you spend on making things , then you may be in a different line of work than you'd originally thought...

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Writing, Time And Creative Space

Fernando's Desk (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008

Merlin posted a great quote today on 43 folders, from novelist Neal Stephenson, Writing novels is hard, and requires vast, unbroken slabs of time. Four quiet hours is a resource that I can put to good use. Two slabs of time, each two hours long, might add up to the same four hours, but are not [...]

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How to Make Time to Make Stuff [Creativity]

TechBlogger (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008

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Making Time to Make

dwlt.net (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008

Merlin Mann just posted the final part of his Making Time to Make series. If you haven’t already, go and read it: Bad Correspondence The Job You Think You Have One Clear Line Do you generate more IMs than comic panels? Have you drafted more web comments than scenes in your screenplay? Or, for that matter, do you find you’re taking more meetings than photos these days? Hmm. Quit shaming me. What is...