Muli Ben-Yehuda's journal

Paul Graham‘s latest essay, What You’ll Wish You’d Known.

The best protection is always to be working on hard problems. Writing novels is hard. “Gaining experience” so you can write a novel later isn’t. Hard means worry. If you’re not worrying that something you’re making will come out badly, or that you won’t be able to understand something you’re studying, then it isn’t hard enough. There has to be suspense.

Amen!

Picked up a new book from the post office today, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity, by David Allen. What can I say? I’m keeping an open mind. Also, it could’ve been worse – it could’ve been He’s Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys!