“I only write when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes at nine every morning.” — William Faulkner
Inspired ot not, I’ve been averaging a few thousand words a week across 2-3 channels (ribbonfarm being the constant one) pretty much nonstop for 13 years. 🤔
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2007-09: ribbonfarm only
2009-12 (I think): ribbonfarm, Be Slightly Evil, Quora, Tempo on the side
2012-14: ribbonfarm, Forbes
2015-19: ribbonfarm, breaking smart
2019-20: ribbonfarm, breaking smart, art of gig
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The word budget ranged from ~300 phoned-in words on 1 channel on low weeks to a peak of probably 15k words in a single week.
The distribution was very variable. Having multiple channels in multiple styles kinda suits my temperament.
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Taking a partial break from writing in ~13 years. Just hit pause on for a few weeks, and might do so on too. Possibly ribbonfarm too, though that’s so low pressure by design it’s close to shitposting. Proximal cause is Important Matters on Other Fronts.
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Interestingly it already feels like the first real vacation in years. The idea of taking a vacation really only makes sense if you’re being paid regularly. So pausing a subscription newsletter makes it a real (but unpaid) vacation.
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Hilariously, while on my year-long fellowship at Berggruen earlier , I didn’t realize I was accruing vacation time. I’d forgotten the concept in the previous 9 years of free agency. So I was mildly surprised when they paid me for it on the last paycheck.
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I think there will be many, like myself, who would love to see some of these put together as a collection of essays/fragments/posts in a book format — a sort of evolution of your efforts to make sense of a world that resists intelligibility.
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