January 2010
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“WSJ: You’ve described how writing your first novel in the 1960s was a...”
– This is from a great interview in the Wall Street Journal (via @mattbucher)
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Experimonth 2010 - the schedule
Having the remaining 11 months chosen, I ended up putting a good deal of thought into ordering these experiments. Some things, like working on a creative project for 2 hours a day, mapped easily onto other things that I already wanted to do. Others seemed to match to a particular time of year. I also wanted to take advantage of automaticity - research shows that after 66 days something is as...
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in no particular order
so i was going to make this pretty, but it’s been sitting in draft form for nearly two weeks, so I’ll just post it as is. this tells you how i used my votes for experimonth 2010
these 5 definitely made it in, with all getting more than 15 votes:
http://experimonth2.uservoice.com/forums/35331-general/suggestions/419040-no-internet-tv-iphone-electronic-media-after-9-pm?ref=title
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carillon
Reading Zadie Smith’s book White Teeth, I came across the word carillon and the wikipedia entry shows it to be pretty freaking cool (emphasis mine):
A carillon is a musical instrument that is usually housed in a free-standing bell tower, or the belfry of a church or other municipal building. The instrument consists of at least 23 cast bronze cup-shaped bells, which are played serially to...
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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
“Hiro scans it briefly to see if any of his friends are in there, but it’s mostly parasites and has-beens. Most of the people Hiro knows are will-bes or wannabes.”
I know I’m late to the party, but wow am I loving this book. The passage above and “condensing fact from the vapor of nuance” to describe reading facial expressions are just two of my favorite...
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Go somewhere new: join me for Experimonth 2010
As some of you know, I’ve decided that January’s experimonth for 2010 will be a suggestion from one of my best friends, Adam Lore, that was in second place on the voting: drive on ufamiliar roads and/or to towns you have never visited.
This means two things: I’m looking for people who want to join me, and I’m hoping for more votes to figure out what I’m going to do...
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JaNEWary: drive on unfamiliar roads and/or to...
I’m seeking the new. If you’d like to join me, send me an email at jeffrey [dot] m [dot] stern [at] gmail [dot] com and i will give you access to be a co-author at http://janewary.tumblr.com/
My rules for the month include that walking instead of driving is acceptable, and actually preferable at least once a week. As with all experimonths, the only rules are that you come up with a...
