Sunday, July 17, 2005
Neal Stephenson and E-mail
Email, instant messaging, text messaging, etc. are all useful for keeping in touch with other people. But they're also a source of interruption. As a former co-worker once told me: "I hate being interrupted but I love being able to interrupt other people to ask a question or share an idea". I appreciate the sentiment; developing software requires long periods of concentration but we also need time to connect with one another. It can be difficult to find the right balance.
Writing software is rarely as solitary an endeavor as writing novels. Nevertheless, novelist Neal Stephenson's essay on this issue entitled Why I am a Bad Correspondent is interesting reading.
Writing software is rarely as solitary an endeavor as writing novels. Nevertheless, novelist Neal Stephenson's essay on this issue entitled Why I am a Bad Correspondent is interesting reading.
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