Many days are a blur of activity, but the Thursday before last (October 10, 2024) my pinball-like bouncing from one task to another, often with little connecting them other than being part of my job, seemed slightly more ridiculous (or interesting) than usual, so I wrote things down. Events Start the morning (breakfast, coffee) revising … Continue reading What I did on Thursday
Correction Jan. 2, 2014: My ‘received email’ count was actually the sum of the number of sent and received emails. (My ‘sent’ folders are inside my local received folders, hence the double-counting.) I’ve fixed the numbers and graphs. I’m far from the first person to note that emails are an incessant and almost overwhelming burden. … Continue reading Jetpacks? No. Flying cars? No. Thousands and thousands of emails? Yes. That’s 2014.
The Eighteenth Elephant 