Optimizing for Attention

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First off I want to brag a little bit. It may be a small thing, but I am really excited about a week of blog posts. I don’t know how long I’ll keep it up, but it’s been a cool exercise in getting my thoughts out of my head, and it’s not taking too much time.

But the other day I noticed a slight problem. Because of my work schedule (3-11pm), combined with my daughter’s wakeup schedule at 8am, I’ve been doing my writing in the morning. There’s only one real problem I’ve seen with that: I don’t really have interesting thoughts in the morning. Don’t get me wrong - I can work and do creative things like programming in the morning, I just don’t have interesting insights into anything new yet.

So what I’ve been doing is writing down ideas on what to write about during the day so that I can pick one up in the morning and run with it. Well, write with it.

And this post is written in complete opposition to my observation since I had the thought to write about it just now. Of course.

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