Comments on: Short Term Personal Savior: Neal Stephenson http://patrickrhone.com/2006/10/30/short-term-personal-savior-neal-stephenson/ Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:59:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Steve Wagner http://patrickrhone.com/2006/10/30/short-term-personal-savior-neal-stephenson/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Steve Wagner Thu, 02 Nov 2006 15:00:20 +0000 http://dev.patrickrhone.com/2006/10/30/short-term-personal-savior-neal-stephenson/#comment-85 <p>Oh yeah -- still definitely a badass.</p> <p>I just finished reading the Baroque Cycle about a month ago, and he'd be a badass no matter how he wrote it. Using real ink and real paper just makes it all the more so.</p> Oh yeah — still definitely a badass.

I just finished reading the Baroque Cycle about a month ago, and he’d be a badass no matter how he wrote it. Using real ink and real paper just makes it all the more so.

]]> By: Patrick Rhone http://patrickrhone.com/2006/10/30/short-term-personal-savior-neal-stephenson/comment-page-1/#comment-84 Patrick Rhone Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:08:52 +0000 http://dev.patrickrhone.com/2006/10/30/short-term-personal-savior-neal-stephenson/#comment-84 <p>I stand corrected then... I think the quill pen thing is an urban legend I heard. Still does not make him any less of a badass.</p> I stand corrected then… I think the quill pen thing is an urban legend I heard. Still does not make him any less of a badass.

]]> By: Steve Wagner http://patrickrhone.com/2006/10/30/short-term-personal-savior-neal-stephenson/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Steve Wagner Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:41:17 +0000 http://dev.patrickrhone.com/2006/10/30/short-term-personal-savior-neal-stephenson/#comment-83 <p>Yes...excellent post. I couldn't agree more. I (along with my one other co-worker) have just started working at home 1 day a week in the quest for blocks of time uninterrupted by visits from the boss.</p> <p>Today was my day at home, and I did more work today than I'll probably get done for the rest of the week. No meetings, no phone calls, email set to update once every 60 minutes.</p> <p>Oh...and I hate to quibble, but here's an excerpt from the Colophon of the Baroque Cycle:</p> <p>The manuscript of The Baroque Cycle was written by hand on 100% cotton paper using three different fountain pens: a Waterman Gentleman, a Rotring, and a Jorg Hysek.</p> <p>from http://www.nealstephenson.com/</p> Yes…excellent post. I couldn’t agree more. I (along with my one other co-worker) have just started working at home 1 day a week in the quest for blocks of time uninterrupted by visits from the boss.

Today was my day at home, and I did more work today than I’ll probably get done for the rest of the week. No meetings, no phone calls, email set to update once every 60 minutes.

Oh…and I hate to quibble, but here’s an excerpt from the Colophon of the Baroque Cycle:

The manuscript of The Baroque Cycle was written by hand on 100% cotton paper using three different fountain pens: a Waterman Gentleman, a Rotring, and a Jorg Hysek.

from http://www.nealstephenson.com/

]]> By: Patrick Rhone http://patrickrhone.com/2006/10/30/short-term-personal-savior-neal-stephenson/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Patrick Rhone Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:04:19 +0000 http://dev.patrickrhone.com/2006/10/30/short-term-personal-savior-neal-stephenson/#comment-82 <p>I could not agree more. I just put it on my next action list to send that to my boss. Boy could I use a four hour block (or more) here and there.</p> I could not agree more. I just put it on my next action list to send that to my boss. Boy could I use a four hour block (or more) here and there.

]]> By: Jon Crosby http://patrickrhone.com/2006/10/30/short-term-personal-savior-neal-stephenson/comment-page-1/#comment-81 Jon Crosby Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:09:25 +0000 http://dev.patrickrhone.com/2006/10/30/short-term-personal-savior-neal-stephenson/#comment-81 <p>Patrick, thank you for the excellent post. Stephenson's discussion of non-linear productive time stretches is completely on target and somehow overlooked in much of the modern cube farm world.</p> Patrick, thank you for the excellent post. Stephenson’s discussion of non-linear productive time stretches is completely on target and somehow overlooked in much of the modern cube farm world.

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