Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Time management technique for bloggers

3:00

You probably noticed that I started putting numbers at the top of each posting. "5:30" means I spent five minutes and 30 seconds writing that post.

"11:30 - 11:45" means I spent 15 minutes writing that post.

The purpose of my putting these numbers is to make sure I write concisely and don't waste time on flowery, literary prose. Indeed, I feel readers get more value when I just write concisely exactly what I mean.

Incidentally, this was also the philosophy of the late Isaac Asimov, who wrote and published 300 books in his lifetime.