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by jcelerier
1595 days ago
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> I try to explain to people who want me to pause a job and do something else that in my head I have this large, abstract structure of what I am trying to build, that is in an abstraction that itself is ephemeral -- it doesn't map nicely onto black boxes or pipes or anything. It is whatever works at that moment, and it requires me to tour it in my head all the time for it to exist at all. you can send them this comic directly: https://i.imgur.com/3uyRWGJ.jpg |
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However, it never works. It may last a week, a day, a few hours, but sooner or later, they're going to believe that you're just staring off into space and that it's fine to interrupt you. That you can pick up and put down your task as easily as you would a pen.